This Day In History
- Activism
- 1895 South Australia became the first Australian colony to give women the vote, and only the fourth place in the world to do so, following New Zealand 18 months earlier. South Australian women also had the right to stand for elections and at the time, it was the only place in the world where women had such rights.
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1922 Tadashi Hyodo becomes Japan's first licensed female pilot.
- Crime
- 1981 Michael Donald, a black teenager in Mobile, Alabama, was abducted, tortured and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan. A lawsuit brought by Donald’s mother, Beulah Mae Donald, later resulted in a landmark judgment that bankrupted one Klan organization.
- Sports
- 1986 Debi Thomas becomes first African American woman to win the World Figure Skating Championship.
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