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This Day In History

Journalism

1993 Connie Chung becomes the second woman to co-anchor the evening news, 17 years after Barbara Walters became the first in 1976.

Law

2017 Iceland mandated an Equal Pay Standard with amendments to the Act on Equal Status and Equal Rights of Women and Men, taking effect from January 2018. Iceland became the first country in the world to make it illegal—resulting in a fine—to pay men and women in the same job differently. One major difference between this law and the Equal Pay Act in the United States is that the burden is no longer on the employee to make this claim.

Military

1863 Harriet Tubman joined Colonel James Montgomery and his 2nd South Carolina Infantry of emancipated slaves, in an assault on several plantations along the Combahee River. This raid rescued more than 700 enslaved people, many of whom later enlisted in the Union army. This weakened the Confederate economy while providing the Union army with more soldiers. Her role in the raid was celebrated in the press, increasing her fame.

Politics

1533 In 1533, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was crowned as Queen Consort of England.