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This Day In History

Arts

2000 Satirical queer teen comedy But I’m A Cheerleader, directed by Jamie Babbit, is released.

Espionage

1950 Ethel Rosenberg testifies before grand jury on allegations of spying for the Soviet Union.

Inventor

1942 Hedy Lamarr patents a device that produced a frequency-hopping signal that could not be tracked or jammed, U.S. Patent 2,292,387 on August 11, 1942 (filed using her married name Hedy Kiesler Markey). This technology would later be used in developing Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technology, in addition to military applications in the US Navy.

Politics

2020 Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden announced that California Senator Kamala Harris would be his running mate. She would become the first woman, first African-American and first Asian-American vice-president of the United States.

2020 Belarus's opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya flees the country amid large-scale protests over the country's disputed election results that returned dictator Alexander Lukashenko to power.

Sports

2002 Golfer Karrie Webb wins the British Open by 2 strokes from fellow Australian Michelle Ellis & Paula Martí; fifth different major for Webb, career "Super Slam".

2016 American Simone Manuel and Penny Oleksiak of Canada dead heat for the gold medal in 100m freestyle race at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; tie in Olympic record 52.70. Sarah Sjöström (Sweden) takes bronze, her third medal of the Games