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This Day In History

Arts

1852 Louisa May Alcott publishes her first story, “The Rival Painters: A Story of Rome,” in The Saturday Evening Gazette.

Education

1979 Bethune Museum and Archives opens in Washington D.C. as a center for African-American women’s history, honoring Mary McLeod Bethune.

Law

1976 Elizabeth Evatt became the the first Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia and the first female judge of an Australian federal court. She was also the first Australian to be elected to the United Nations Human Rights Committee.

Military

1993 The Vietnam Women’s Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after being conceived by former army combat nurse Diane Carlson Evans and sculpted by Glenna Goodacre to honor the 265,000 women who voluntarily served during the Vietnam era.

Politics

1853 The Constitution of Vélez Province in what was then the New Granada Republic (Colombia) grants universal suffrage to men and women. The Supreme Court annulled the provision for women.

Science

2020 Pharmaceutical company Pfizer reported that the vaccine developed by scientist Özlem Türeci and her team was more than 90 percent effective in providing immunity to the COVID-19 virus.