This Day In History
- Military
- 1991 The US Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft.
- Politics
- 2016 Yuriko Koike is the first woman to be elected Tokyo Governor.
- Sports
- 1928 In the first women’s Olympic track event, American sprinter Elizabeth Robinson equals her own world record 12.2s to win 100m gold medal in Amsterdam; Canadians Fanny Rosenfeld & Ethel Smith dead-heat for second place (12.3s).
- 1932 Babe Didrikson's first event at the Olympic Games was the javelin throw, on 31 July 1932. This was the first time the women's javelin had been included on the Olympic programme. Winning medals in the 80-meter hurdles and high jump at the same Games, Didrikson is the only track and field athlete, male or female, to win individual Olympic medals in a running, throwing and jumping event.
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