This Day In History
- Activism
- 1889 Social reformer Jane Addams's Hull House opened. The Chicago, Illinois (U.S.) settlement house served recently arrived European immigrants. By 1911, Hull House had expanded to 13 buildings.
- Law
- 1974 Actress Doris Day won a $22.8 million malpractice suit against her former lawyer. Day, one of the biggest box office draws of the 1950s and ’60s, had allowed her third husband, Martin Melcher, to handle her finances. After his death in 1968, she discovered that her $20 million in life savings had disappeared, and sued her lawyer for mismanagement. She was not able to recover the full value of the award, however, and settling for $6 million.
- Politics
- 0085 Roman emperor Domitian, who had been conducting a reign of terror for the past three years, is assassinated as a result of a plot by his wife Domitia and two Praetorian prefects.
- Religion
- 1634 Anne Hutchinson, an Englishwoman who would become an outspoken religious thinker in the American colonies, arrives at the Massachusetts Bay Colony with her family.
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