This Day In History
- Arts
- 2018 "Halloween" film reboot starring Jamie Curtis makes a record $77m for a horror film with a female lead, biggest debut any film with female lead over 55 in US.
- Military
- 1919 US Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a living female recipient, Anna Howard Shaw, for the first time.
- 1944 The U.S. Navy began accepting black women into WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), the women's branch of the United States Naval Reserve during World War II.
- Politics
- 2017 New Zealand Labour Party forms a coalition government led by Jacinda Ardern (37), youngest NZ leader in 161 years.
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