This Day In History
- Arts
- 1996 Indo-Canadian romantic drama film Fire is released. Written and directed by Deepa Mehta, it was one of the first mainstream Bollywood films to explicitly show same-sex relations, and the first to feature a lesbian relationship.
- Politics
- 1920 Mary Rogers was elected to Richmond City Council, becoming the first woman councillor in Victoria, and the second in Australia (after Grace Benny).
- 1972 Vice-President of Sinn Féin Maire Drumm is arrested for her political activities in Ireland. She was later assassinated in her hospital bed by Ulster loyalists.
- 1974 Democrat Ella T. Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to win a US gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.
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