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Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera
1922May, 11

Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera

Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera, Filipino lawyer and jurist
Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera (born Ameurfina Aguinaldo Melencio; 11 May 1922 – 12 October 2020) was a Filipino lawyer who served as an Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court from 1979 to 1992. She was the second woman appointed to the Supreme Court, filling the vacancy left by the retirement of the first female Supreme Court Justice, Cecilia Muñoz-Palma.

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    James Joyce

    Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
  • 13Sep

    Great Fire of Smyrna

    The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
  • 4Nov

    Tutankhamun

    In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
  • 24Nov

    Executions during the Irish Civil War

    Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Robert Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.