Welcome to Infinite Women

This Day In History

Education

2009 Kavya Shivashankar, a 13-year-old girl from Kansas, spelled “Laodicean” (lukewarm or indifferent in religion or politics) to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Her sister Vanya won in 2015.

Law

2011 Malta votes on the introduction of divorce; the proposal was approved by 53% of voters, resulting in a law allowing divorce under certain conditions being enacted later in the year. At the time, Malta was one of only three countries in the world (along with the Philippines and the Vatican City) where divorce was not permitted.

Military

1980 In 1976 women were enrolled into the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York for the first time. On May 28, 1980, 62 of these female cadets graduated and were commissioned as second lieutenants.

Politics

1851 The Ohio Woman’s Rights Convention met in Akron. Mrs. Frances D. Gage, convention president, began the proceedings with a stirring call to arms: "Are not the natural wants and emotions of humanity common too, and shared equally by both sexes? Does man hunger and thirst, suffer cold and heat more than woman? Does he love and hate, hope and fear, joy and sorrow more than woman? Does his heart thrill with a deeper pleasure in doing good? Can his soul writhe in more bitter agony under the consciousness of evil or wrong? Is the sunshine more glorious, the air more quiet, the sounds of harmony more soothing, the perfume of flowers more exquisite, or forms of beauty more soul-satisfying to his senses than to hers. To all these interrogatories every one will answer, No!"