This Day In History
- Arts
- 1995 "Jagged Little Pill", Alanis Morissette's third studio album, is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year, 1996).
- 2007 The first large-scale exhibition of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's work in Mexico opens at Palacio de Bellas Artes on the 100th anniversary of her birth.
- Politics
- 1993 Canada’s Progressive Conservative Party chose Defense Minister Kim Campbell to succeed Brian Mulroney as prime minister; she was the first woman to hold the post.
- Sports
- 1976 Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04).
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