This Day In History
- Arts
- 2016 India's first televised same-sex love story, The Other Love Story, written and directed by Roopa Rao, premieres.
- Law
- 1927 Five Canadian women - judge Emily Murphy and activists Henrietta Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby - file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?" The following year, the court ruled no.
- Sports
- 1985 American Mary Joe Fernández, at 14 years 8 days old, becomes youngest player to win at the US Tennis Open, beating England's Sara Gomer 6-1, 6-4 in a first round match.
- 1990 Portugal's Rosa Mota wins women's marathon (2:31:27) at the European Championships. Mota is often considered the greatest female marathoner of all time; she ran 21 marathon races between 1982 and 1992 and won 14 of them.
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