This Day In History
- Arts
- 1998 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was released on August 25th, 1998 and sold 422,600 copies its first week in stores — a SoundScan record for best-selling debut week for a female artist. In January 1999, Hill received 10 Grammy nominations.
- Politics
- 1989 Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary.
- Sports
- 1990 Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman's record (47'8½").
- 1991 Polish runner Wanda Panfil wins third female world champion marathon (2:29:53).
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Barbara Carr, when she and three other women were elected to the City Council of Pacifica, CA in 1992
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