This Day In History
- Activism
- 1961 The first “Freedom Riders” left Washington, D.C. to challenge racial segregation on interstate buses and in bus terminals, including Genevieve Hughes, Mae Frances Moultrie and Joan Trumpauer Mullholland.
- 1972 The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded by Dorothy Stowe, her husband Irving and Jim Bohlen in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
- Politics
- 1979 Margaret Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party, is sworn in as Britain’s first female prime minister. The Oxford-educated chemist and lawyer was sworn in the day after the Conservatives won a 44-seat majority in general parliamentary elections.
- Sports
- 2019 The inaugural all-female motorsport series, W Series, takes place at Hockenheimring. The race was won by Jamie Chadwick, who would go on to become the inaugural season's champion.
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