This Day In History
- Arts
- 1998 Hit television show Sex and the City premieres on HBO, based on the book by Candace Bushnell.
- 2018 Carrie Underwood became the most decorated act at the CMT Music Awards as a new award for female video of the year gave her 18 wins overall.
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1942 Adeline Gray was just 24, but she was already an experienced parachutist and a trained pilot when she tested the first nylon parachute.
- Politics
- 1654 Queen Christina of Sweden abdicated; she was succeeded by her cousin, Charles X Gustav.
- Sports
- 2009 Svetlana Kuznetsova beat top-ranked Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-2 in an all-Russian final at the French Open.
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