Welcome to Infinite Women

This Day In History

1967 Celebrity hairdresser Vidal Sassoon is photographed cutting actress Mia Farrow's hair into the famous pixie cut for Rosemary's Baby, and was paid $5,000. In reality, it was just a publicity stunt, Farrow had previously cut her own hair.

Activism

1976 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast.

Military

1986 Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper retires from active duty in the US Navy. A pioneering computer scientist and inventor of the computer language COBOL, she was the oldest officer still on active duty at the time of her retirement.

Politics

2018 Vermont Democrats chose the US’s first transgender gubernatorial nominee, Christine Hallquist. (Hallquist would get 40% of the vote in November against Republican Phil Scott, who won with 55%.)

Sports

2016 During the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Chinese swimmer Fu Yuanhui mentioned her period in an internationally televised interview after her team came in fourth place in the 4x100m medley relay. “I don’t think I performed very well today. I feel I let my teammates down,” she said, visibly in pain. “It’s because my period came yesterday, so I felt particularly tired – but this isn’t an excuse, I still didn’t swim well enough."

Writing

2014 Beauty of the Broken by Tawni Watersis published.