This Day In History

2011 Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her 25-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Crime
2018 Harvey Weinstein was charged in New York with rape and another sex felony in the first prosecution to result from the wave of allegations against him; the once-powerful movie producer turned himself in to face the charges and was released on $1 million bail after a court appearance.
Law
2018 Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that prohibits abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
Military
1809 Juana Azurduy and her husband Manuel Ascencio Padilla joined the Chuquisaca Revolution, which ousted the governor of the Real Audencia of Charcas. Their fight led to the creation of Bolivia as an independent country, with namesake Simón Bolívar commenting, "This country should not be named Bolivia in my honor, but Padilla or Azurduy, because it was them who made it free."

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