This Day In History
- Arts
- 1970 The Mary Tyler Moore show debuted on CBS-TV.
- Law
- 1893 With the signing of the Electoral Bill by Governor Lord Glasgow, New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to grant national voting rights to women. The bill was the outcome of years of suffragette meetings in towns and cities across the country, with women often traveling considerable distances to hear lectures and speeches, pass resolutions, and sign petitions. New Zealand women first went to the polls in the national elections of November 1893.
- Politics
- 1985 Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
- Writing
- 1861 Ellen Price Wood's bestselling novel "East Lynne" is published.
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