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Activism

1722 One of several articles anonymously penned by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was published in the UK, advocating for the medical benefits of small pox inoculations.

Arts

2005 Long-running US television crime series Bones, based on Kathy Reichs's best-selling Temperance Brennan book series, premiered.

Business

2004 Oprah Winfrey gives a brand-new Pontiac G-6 sedan, worth $28,500, to every person in her studio audience: a total of 276 cars in all.) Oprah had told her producers to fill the crowd with people who “desperately needed” the cars, and when she announced the prize (by jumping up and down, waving a giant keyring and yelling “Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car!”), pandemonium–crying, screaming, delirium, fainting–broke out all around her. It was, as one media expert told a reporter, “one of the great promotional stunts in the history of television.”

Law

1994 President Bill Clinton signs the Violence Against Women Act as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, providing funding for programs that help victims of domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, stalking and other gender-related violence.