This Day In History
- Arts
- 1976 Playwright Ntozake Shange's "for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf" premieres in New York City, and would later be nominated for the Tony for Best Play. Telling the stories of seven women who have suffered oppression in a racist and sexist society, the show consists of poetic monologues accompanied by dance movements and music, a form Shange coined as the choreopoem.
- Crime
- 1963 A bomb exploded during Sunday morning services in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls: Addie Mae Collins (14), Cynthia Wesley (14), Carole Robertson (14) and Carol Denise McNair (11).
- Law
- 1981 The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Politics
- 2014 Ewa Kopacz becomes Prime Minister of Poland.
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