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Activism

2018 Teachers in Arizona and Colorado converged on state capitols as they launched widespread walkouts in a bid for better pay and education funding

Crime

2008 Police in Amstetten, Austria, arrested Josef Fritzl, freeing his daughter Elisabeth and her six surviving children whom he had fathered while holding her captive in a basement cell for 24 years. (Fritzl was later sentenced to life in a psychiatric ward.)

2018 Bill Cosby was convicted of drugging and molesting Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004; it was the first major celebrity trial of the #MeToo era and completed the comedian's downfall. (Cosby was later sentenced to three to 10 years in prison.)

Military

1777 16-year-old American Revolutionary War heroine Sybil Ludington made an all-night horseback ride to alert militia forces in the towns of Putnam County, New York, and Danbury, Connecticut, of the approach of British forces. She rode twice as far as Paul Revere did, by herself, over bad roads, and in an area known to be inhabited by outlaws.