This Day In History
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1965 O Kommissarova (USSR) sets women's longest parachute jump (46,250 feet).
- Law
- 1981 In 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O’Connor, an Arizona court of appeals judge, to be the first woman Supreme Court justice in U.S. history. On September 21, the Senate unanimously approved her appointment to the nation’s highest court, and on September 25 she was sworn in by Chief Justice Warren Burger.
- Politics
- 1898 Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China, imprisoning the Guangxu Emperor.
- Sports
- 1988 East German swimmer Silke Hörner sets world record 2:26.71 to win the 200m breaststroke gold medal at the Seoul Olympics, later winning a second gold in the 4 x 100m medley relay.
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