Canada legally declared women as “persons.”
This day is now celebrated as Persons Day.
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Gold medalist Tommie Smith was suspended for performing the Black Power salute during the Olympics.
African-American poet Phillis Wheatley was freed from slavery.
The first all-female spacewalk took place.
The Normans defeated the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
Former Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan as suicide bombers attacked her convoy in Karachi.
