This Day In History
- Activism
- 1917 16 women from the National Women’s Party were arrested while picketing the White House demanding universal women’s suffrage; they were charged with obstructing traffic.
- Arts
- 1989 Written by Nora Ephron, the acclaimed and beloved American romantic comedy film When Harry Met Sally is released in cinemas. Ephron received a British Academy Film Award, an Oscar nomination, and a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for her screenplay. The film would gross $92.8 million, against a $16 million budget.
- Inventor
- 1885 Sarah E. Goode, became the first African-American woman to be granted a patent by the U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, for an early form of a Murphy bed that could fold into a desk during the day.
- Politics
- 1957 Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
- Science
- 1960 Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her study of chimpanzees in the wild.
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