This Day In History
- Activism
- 1896 National Federation of Colored Women established in Washington, D.C. at the call of Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin.
- Inventor
- 1815 Mary Brush becomes one of the first women to secure a US patent in her own name, for a new type of corset.
- Politics
- 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike is elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, becoming the world's first female head of government.
- Sports
- 1957 Althea Gibson becomes the first person of African descent to win a major US tennis tournament, two weeks after she won Wimbledon for the first time.
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