This Day In History
- 1909 Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
- Arts
- 2009 Biopic Julie & Julia, written and directed by Nora Ephron, is released. Juxtaposing the lives of Julia Child (played by Meryl Streep) and blogger Julie Powell (played by Amy Adams), who was inspired by her, it was Ephron's final film and grossed almost $130 million.
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1985 Chiaki Mukai, along with two men, are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
- Science
- 1962 Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
- Sports
- 1948 American Alice Coachman becomes the first black woman from any country to win an Olympic gold medal when she takes out the high jump at the London Games.
- 1987 Lynne Cox braves the freezing waters of the Bering Strait to make the first recorded swim from the United States to the Soviet Union.
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