This Day In History
- Activism
- 2013 Education activist Malala Yousafzai delivers a speech at the Youth Takeover of the United Nations.
- Arts
- 2019 The Farewell, written and directed by Lulu Wang and starring Awkwafina, was released in US cinemas. The film was a critical and commercial success.
- Politics
- 1977 US President Jimmy Carter defended Supreme Court limits on government payments for poor women’s abortions, saying, “There are many things in life that are not fair.”
- 1984 Representative Geraldine Ferraro (a Democrat from New York) is chosen as the first female to run for Vice President of the United States on the Democratic Party ticket with Walter Mondale.
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