This Day In History
- Arts
- 2018 Ocean's 8, the franchise's first female-led film, opens in US theatres with an all-star cast of actresses.
- Politics
- 1682 Sophia Alekseyevna names herself regent of Russia; she rules as regent until 1689.
- 1929 Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour, becoming the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
- 1949 Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker and others are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
- 2009 North Korea’s highest court sentenced American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee to 12 years’ hard labor for trespassing and “hostile acts.” (The women were pardoned in early August 2009 after a trip to Pyongyang by former President Bill Clinton.)
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