This Day In History
- 1566 Tribunal convicts Agnes Waterhouse of witchcraft, and sentences her to be first British woman executed for the crime (Chelmsford, England).
- Politics
- 1789 The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (it will be later renamed Department of State). It would be more than 200 years until a woman headed the department, when Madeleine Albright served as the first female Secretary of State in U.S. history from 1997 to 2001.
- Sports
- 1992 Japanese swimmer Kyoko Iwasaki wins the 200m breaststroke in Barcelona to become one of the youngest Olympic gold medalists in history at 14 years and 6 days old.
- 2021 Triathlete Flora Duffy claims historic first ever Olympic gold medal for Bermuda in the women's event at the Tokyo Games.
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