This Day In History
- Arts
- 2018 Cardi B becomes first female rapper to get two number on the US Billboard hits, with "I Like It".
- Law
- 1992 Attorney General of Botswana v. Unity Dow was decided. The plaintiff, Unity Dow, was a citizen of Botswana, married to a non-citizen, whose children had been denied citizenship under a provision of the Citizenship Act of 1984, which grantedcitizenship on a child born in Botswana only if "a) his father was a citizen of Botswana; or b) in the case of a person born out-of-wedlock, his mother was a citizen of Botswana." Dow argued that this provision violated guarantees of the Constitution of Botswana. The High Court agreed.
- Politics
- 2018 Souad Abderrahim is elected the first female mayor of Tunis, Tunisia.
- Sports
- 2010 Serena Williams won her fourth Wimbledon title and 13th Grand Slam championship by sweeping Vera Zvonareva in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2, in the women’s final.
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