This Day In History
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1984 Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space as she carried out more than three hours of experiments outside the orbiting space station Salyut 7.
- Education
- 1678 Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia received her Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Padua, after speaking for an hour in Classical Latin, explaining difficult passages selected at random from the works of Aristotle. She is believed to be one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
- Espionage
- 1917 In Paris, France, the exotic dancer Mata Hari was sentenced to death by a French court for spying on Germany’s behalf during World War I.
- Law
- 1997 Susan Kenny became Victoria's first female Judge of the Court of Appeal and President of the Court of Appeal.
- Politics
- 2007 Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
- Sports
- 2015 Venezuelan cyclist Stefany Hernandez win the world title at the UCI BMX Supercross series.
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