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This Day In History

1967 The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman".

Activism

1903 The U.S. Women’s Trade Union League is established.

1946 Emily Greene Balch, co-founder of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1960 Ruby Bridges was six when she became the first African American child to integrate a white Southern elementary school. On November 14, 1960, she was escorted to class by her mother and U.S. marshals due to violent mobs

Arts

1970 Diana Ross and the Supremes perform their final concert on January 14, 1970, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

1988 Created by Diane English, sitcom Murphy Brown premieres starring Candice Bergen.

Sports

1889 Journalist Elizabeth Cochran, aka Nellie Bly, sails around the world in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, and 14 seconds, beating the fictional record set by Phineas Fogg in Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days. She departed from from Hoboken Pier in New Jersey at 9:40 p.m. on November 14, 1889.