This Day In History
- Arts
- 1951 Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London. its production and aesthetic were heavily influenced by Mary Blair, one of Disney's few female animators in the 1950s.
- Politics
- 2016 Hillary Clinton becomes the first woman to receive a US presidential nomination from a major political party. During her speech at the Democratic National Convention, she says, “Standing here as my mother's daughter, and my daughter's mother, I'm so happy this day has come.”
- Science
- 1918 Emmy Noether's paper, which became known as Noether's theorem was presented at Göttingen, Germany, from which conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of angular momentum, linear momentum, and energy.
- Sports
- 1745 The first recorded women's cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.
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