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This Day In History

1999 Lillian Fullerton became the first woman Director General of the National Library of Australia (NLA)

Activism

1956 20,000 women, some with babies on their backs, from the cities and towns, from reserves and villages, took a petition addressed to the Prime Minister to the Union Buildings in Pretoria. He was not in. The petition demanded the repeal of laws requiring black women carry passes when outside their homes.

1956 South African women demonstrate against pass laws, apartheid legislation that required black South Africans over age 16 to carry a pass book, known as a dompas, everywhere and at all times.

Education

2014 The University of Pune is renamed Savitribai Phule Pune University on 9 August 2014 in honor of Savitribai Phule, the 19th century Indian social reformer who played an important role in improving the lives of women and the Dalit communities in Maharashtra during British colonial rule. She and her husband Mahatma Jyotiba Phule founded India's first native-run school for girls in 1848.

Law

1995 Roberta Cooper Ramo becomes the first woman to hold the office of president of the American Bar Association.

Religion

1253 Clare of Assisi's rules confirmed by Pope Innocent IV for Clare's Order of Poor Ladies.

Sports

2016 American gymnast Simone Biles wins her first Olympic Gold medal.