This Day In History
- Arts
- 1670 Playwright Aphra Behn's The Forc'd Marriage; or, The Jealous Bridegroom premieres with the Duke's Company in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England. The sex tragicomedy ran for six nights, with Behn receiving the house profits for the third and six nights. It is considered her first staged play.
- 1957 Leontyne Price makes her operatic stage debut singing Madame Lidoine in the US premiere of "Dialogues of the Carmelites" in San Francisco.
- Politics
- 1951 Swiss males votes against female suffrage.
- Sports
- 1973 In “The Battle of the Sexes,” tennis great Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in straight sets during an exhibition match aired on primetime TV and drawing 90 million viewers. “I thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn’t win that match,” King said after the match. “It would ruin the women’s [tennis] tour and affect all women’s self-esteem."
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