This Day In History
- 1901 The Moberly-Jourdain Incident - Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain claim to have time traveled at Versailles.
- Arts
- 1920 Mamie Smith and her Jazz Hounds record “Crazy Blues” for Okeh Records, first significant Blues hit by African American artist.
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1911 Lidia Zvereva becomes Russia's first licensed female pilot.
- Law
- 1993 Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn in as the second woman and 107th Justice to serve on the US Supreme Court.
- 1999 Australian Judge Patsy Wolfe was sworn in Queensland's first female Chief Judge of the District Court. She had served on the District Court since 1995.
- Science
- 2017 Scientists study identifying nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) deficiency major cause of miscarriages and multiple birth defects published in "New England Journal of Medicine". Researchers included Annabelle Enriquez, Melissa Rapadas, Ella M.M.A. Martin, Julie Moreau, Aideen M. McInerney-Leo, Janine Smith, Alison Colley, Felicity Collins, Eleni Giannoulatou, Emma L. Duncan, and Sally L. Dunwoodie.
- Sports
- 2008 British cyclist Nicole Cooke wins the road race at the Beijing Olympics, earning Great Britain's 200th gold in the modern Olympics.
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