This Day In History
- Arts
- 2000 Bonnie Raitt and Billie Holiday inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- Espionage
- 1951 The espionage trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins. The couple were American citizens accused of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union.
- Law
- 1996 Rosemary Balmford became Victoria's first female Supreme Court judge.
- Science
- 1906 Nora Stanton Blatch (later Nora Stanton Barney) becomes the first woman elected to American Society of Civil Engineers.
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