This Day In History
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1932 Departing on 20 May and arriving the next day, Amelia Earhart became the first woman—and the only person since Charles Lindbergh—to fly nonstop and alone across the Atlantic, landing her plane in Ireland after flying across the North Atlantic. Earhart traveled over 2,000 miles from Newfoundland in just under 15 hours.
- Inventor
- 1826 Phoebe Collier became one of the first women to secure a US patent in her own name, for "wheel-fellies, sawing."
- 1842 Maria P Dibble became one of the first women to secure a US patent in her own name, for a type of bandage.
- Politics
- 0491 Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed Augusta is able to choose the successor for the Byzantine throne, after Zeno (her previous husband and late emperor) dies of dysentery.
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