1820 – Judith Sargent Murray, American author, playwright, poet and women’s rights advocate, known for her essay “On the Equality of the Sexes” published in the Massachusetts Magazine in 1790 (b. 1751) passed away.
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1916 – Iva Toguri D’Aquino, “Tokyo Rose”, American typist and broadcaster, broadcast English-language propaganda via Radio Tokyo to Allied soldiers during WWII was born; the Department of Justice deemed her information innocuous, but she was eventually tried and convicted of one count of treason. She was eventually pardoned after witness testimony was shown to be false. (d. 2006)