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This Day In History

0038 Drusilla, Caligula's sister with whom the emperor is said to have an incestuous relationship, is deified (having died in June).

Activism

1913 Women protest in the Free State, South Africa, led by Charlotte Maxeke, resisting government attempts to impose passes on women; passes are burnt in front of the municipal offices.

Inventor

1924 Originally designed to demonstrate the evils of unchecked capitalism, Elizabeth Magie's "The Landlord's Game," was patented on September 23 1924, long before before a man patented a very similar game called Monopoly and sold it to Parker Brothers. Charles Darrow, an unemployed heating salesman, traditionally gets credit for America’s favorite homage to extortionist landlords. But as PBS discovered in 2004, the board game actually had its start nearly three decades earlier when Magie, an acolyte of the economist Henry George, secured to the patent to The Landlord’s Game. For her efforts in creating the country’s most popular board game she received just $500 from Parker Brothers.

Law

1965 Roma Mitchell became South Australia's first female Chief Justice and Judge of the Supreme Court.