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This Day In History

Arts

1995 The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode Rejoined airs, featuring the franchise's first kiss between two women.

Law

1996 Christine Wheeler became Western Australia's first female Judge of the Supreme Court.

Politics

1756 Lydia Taft became the first recorded legal woman voter in colonial America when she cast a vote on October 30, 1756 in an official New England Open Town Meeting, at Uxbridge, Massachusetts

Writing

1811 Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is published anonymously. A small circle of people, including the Price Regent, learned Austen’s identity, but most of the British public knew only that the popular book had been written “by a Lady.”