This Day In History
- 1907 Typhoid Mary Mallon arrested and quarantined as a threat to public health in New York City.
- 1958 The Monarch Underwear Company fire in New York City leaves 24 dead (18 of them women) and 15 injured.
- 2014 In her first news conference as Federal Reserve chair, Janet Yellen said with the job market still weak, the Fed intended to keep short-term rates near zero for a “considerable” time and would raise them only gradually.
- Activism
- 1875 Birth of labor organizer, suffragist, and social worker Margaret Foley. She was an outspoken suffrage activist who would loudly confront anti-suffrage speakers and made a solo balloon flight over Lawrence, Massachusetts, tossing suffrage literature from the basket (1910).
- Sports
- 2018 Former tennis star Martina Navratilova said she was “extremely angry” to learn that the BBC paid John McEnroe at least 10 times more than her for their broadcasting roles at Wimbledon.
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