This Day In History
- Crime
- 1893 The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Although she was acquitted, the murders became notorious for decades after.
- Law
- 1915 Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
- Politics
- 1949 Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.
- Science
- 1833 Ada Lovelace (future first computer programmer) meets mathematician Charles Babbage, with whom she corresponded and collaborated with extensively over the coming years.
- Writing
- 1851 Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly began to appear in serial form in the Washington National Era, an abolitionist weekly. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery story was published in forty installments over the next ten months. For her story Mrs. Stowe was paid $300.
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