This Day In History
- Arts
- 2010 Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director, for her movie “The Hurt Locker,” about an American bomb squad that disables explosives in Iraq in 2004.
- Crime
- 1827 15-year-old heiress Ellen Turner is abducted by 30-year-old Edward Gibbon Wakefield, to force her to marry him. He later became a successful politician, despite being found guilty of kidnapping and spending three years in prison for his crime.
- Military
- 1994 The U.S. Navy issued its first permanent orders assigning women to regular duty on a combat ship, the USS Eisenhower.
- Sports
- 1992 Nicole Stevenson sets Australian swimming record 200m backstroke (2:06.78) at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
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