This Day In History
- Inventor
- 1822 Julia Planton became one of the first women to secure a US patent in her own name, for "stove, foot."
- Law
- 2014 Maura Healey is elected as the first openly gay Attorney General in the U.S.
- Military
- 1429 Joan of Arc and Charles d'Albret liberate the heavily fortified town of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier after a siege.
- Science
- 1960 Jane Goodall observed chimpanzees creating tools at what is now Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, the first observation of this behavior in a non-human. A chimpanzee she named David Greybeard had used a grass stalk to extract termites from a termite hill. Her lifelong study of chimpanzees revealed many new discoveries about the species.
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