This Day In History
- Activism
- 1838 Intersex Solidarity Day, November 8, is also known as Intersex Day of Remembrance and marks the November 8, 1838 birthday of Herculine Barbin, a now-famous French intersex person.
- 1910 The state of Washington passes a constitutional amendment to guarantee woman suffrage.
- Arts
- 1975 Candice Bergen became the first woman to host Saturday Night Live.
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1984 Dr. Anna L. Fisher, a physician on the shuttle Discovery, becomes the first American mother and third American woman to fly into space.
- Politics
- 2005 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a former finance minister of Liberia, wins the country’s presidential election.
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