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This Day In History

Activism

1981 As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.

Law

1992 Sally Thomas became the Northern Territory's first female Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

1998 Margaret McMurdo became Queensland's first female President of the Court of Appeal.

Military

1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill creating a women’s auxiliary agency in the Navy known as “Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service” - WAVES for short.

Sports

2002 WNBA player Lisa Leslie of the Los Angeles Sparks became the first woman to dunk in a professional game, jamming on a breakaway in the first half of the Sparks’ 82-73 loss to the Miami Sol.