Bill Baird is arrested at Boston University for distributing a contraceptive device.

The pro-choice advocated is arrested before a crowd of 3,000 students at Boston University’s Hayden Hall after handing out a package of spermicidal foam he had bought at a Zayre’s department store to an unmarried 19-year-old coed. After being convicted of violating Massachusetts’ “Crimes Against Chastity” law, he spends 36 days in Charles Street Jail, and after his release declares, “I thought nobody would let me go to jail in Boston.” Baird’s conviction and the law are overturned by the Supreme Court in 1972.*