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On this day in Jersey...

• Jersey elects first woman to States Assembly
  In 1948, Ivy Foster became the first woman elected to serve in Jersey's States Assembly, although she was not the first to try.
• Photographer Claude Cahun dies in St Helier
  Claud Cahun was a French photographer and sculptor who settled in Jersey with her step sister, and remained throughout the war.
• Passenger plane springs a leak on flight to Jersey
  A passenger flight between Manchester and Jersey had to decrease altitude when a leak was detected in the fuselage.