This Day In History
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1912 Lilly Steinschneider becomes Hungary's first licensed female pilot.
- Military
- 1947 India became independent after some 200 years of British rule. Women like Rani Velu Nachiyar and Rani Lakshmibai had been resisting the British throughout the occupation of their country.
- 1995 After a legal battle, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet at The Citadel military college; she dropped out less than a week later due to death threats, vandalism and other harassment against herself and her family.
- Sports
- 1970 Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
- 2016 Anita Włodarczyk of Poland sets a world record 82.29m to win the women's hammer throw gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Zhang Wenxiu (China) wins silver, and Sophie Hitchon (Great Britain) bronze.
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