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Arts

2000 With Erin Brockovich, released on March 17, 2000, Julia Roberts becomes the first actress ever to earn $20 million for a movie.

Aviation and Aeronautics

1964 Geraldine “Jerrie” Mock became the first woman to complete a solo airplane trip around the world as she returned to Columbus, Ohio, after 29.5 days in her Cessna 180.

Education

1910 Camp Fire Girls is established as the first interracial, non-sectarian American organization for girls.

1912 In 1912, the Camp Fire Girls organization was incorporated in Washington D.C., two years to the day after it was founded in Thetford, Vermont. (The group is now known as Camp Fire.)

Journalism

2009 U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were detained by North Korea while reporting on North Korean refugees living across the border in China. (Both were convicted of entering North Korea illegally and were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor; both were freed in August 2009 after former President Bill Clinton met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.)

Military

1917 Loretta Perfectus Walsh became the first woman to join the US Navy and the first woman to officially join the military in a role other than a nurse.

Politics

1969 70-year-old Golda Meir was elected as Israel's first female prime minister. She was the country's fourth prime minister and remains the only woman to have held the position.