This Day In History
- Arts
- 1961 American opera singer Grace Bumbry becomes the first singer of African descent to perform at the Bayreuth Festival, Germany, where she earned 42 curtain calls.
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1999 Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman commander of a space shuttle mission (launching the Milky Way's most powerful X-ray telescope.) Just four years earlier, she'd broken through another glass ceiling as the first woman to pilot a space shuttle
- Politics
- 1958 The first women named to peerage in House of Lords (UK), 40 years after women were granted the right to stand as MPs in the House of Commons. Baronesses Barbara Wootton, Katharine Elliot, Stella Isaacs and Irene Curzonwere life peers appointed by the Prime Minister.
- Sports
- 1996 At the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, the U.S. women’s gymnastics team wins its first-ever team gold.
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