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Women Who Made History…today by VirtueDigest: 3:40pm On Aug 17, 2016 |
1996 Aug 17, The first French woman in space, Claudie Andre-Deshays, took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in a Soyuz-U rocket. 1998 Aug 17, India outlawed the use of quinacrine to sterilize women due to its suspected effects as a carcinogen. 2000 Aug 17, In Afghanistan the Taliban reversed its decision against women working in bakeries. 2001 Aug 17, The Brazilian Congress approved a legal civil code that made women equal to men. 2005 Aug 17, Hundreds of anti-war vigils were held nationwide, part of an effort spurred by Cindy Sheehan's protest near President Bush's Texas ranch in memory of her son Casey, who was killed in Iraq. 2006 Aug 17, In Indonesia a woman died of bird flu in a village where authorities were investigating a possible cluster of human cases of the H5N1 virus. 1 Share
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