This Day In History
- Arts
- 1926 Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman, the first Book-of-the-Month Club selection, is published by Viking Press. The Book-of-the-Month Club’s 4,000-plus members were not pleased with the novel about a widow who scandalizes her relations by moving to a town involved in witchcraft. Warner, an openly gay woman, later published 144 short stories in the New Yorker, as well as more novels, poetry, and translations.
- 1997 Buffy the Vampire Slayer premieres on the WB.
- Crime
- 1949 Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is the first woman to be convicted of treason against the United States. The American broadcaster was employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate Axis propaganda during World War II. She was sentenced to 10 to 30 years' imprisonment and was released in 1961.
- Politics
- 2017 South Korean judges uphold parliament's decision to impeach President Park Geun-hye, first Female President of South Korea.
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