This Day In History
- Activism
- 1975 Led by 79-year-old Whina Cooper, the Māori Land March from Te Hāpua, culminates in Wellington, where Cooper presented a petition to the prime minister at Parliament, signed by 60,000 people from across New Zealand supporting Māori land rights.
- Arts
- 1887 Dame Nellie Melba made her début as an opera singer at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, on 13 October 1887. She was an immediate hit as Gilda in Rigoletto. Subsequently she appeared in La Traviata and in Lucia di Lammermoor; then, on 24 May 1888, sang Lucia at Covent Garden.
- Law
- 2011 Lorraine Walker became the Australian Capital Territory's first female Chief Magistrate.
- Politics
- 1908 Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and becomes the first woman to speak there.
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