This Day In History
- Arts
- 1910 “America the Beautiful,” with words by Katharine Lee Bates and music by Samuel A. Ward, was first published.
- Politics
- 2018 Sahle-Work Zewde becomes Ethiopia's first female President and Africa's only female head of state after being elected by parliament.
- Science
- 2000 A team led by French paleoanthropologist Brigitte Senut and Martin Pickford discover Orrorin tugenensis, one of the earliest species on the human family tree that lived about 6 million years ago, in the Tugen Hills, Kenya.
- Sports
- 1968 Czech gymnast Věra Čáslavská wins the uneven bars and vault gold medals at the Mexico City Olympics, her 6th and 7th career gold medals and her 4th at these Games.
- 1981 Allison Roe of New Zealand wins the New York City Marathon in 2:25:29.
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