This Day In History

Activism
1912 Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
Aviation and Aeronautics
1935 In the first flight of its kind, American aviatrix Amelia Earhart left Wheeler Field in Honolulu, Hawaii, on a solo flight to North America. Hawaiian commercial interests offered a $10,000 award to whoever accomplished the flight first. The next day, after traveling 2,400 miles in 18 hours, she safely landed at Oakland Airport in California.
Politics
1055 Theodora III Porphyrogenita becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire on 11 January 1055 after the death of her co-ruler and sister Zoe.
1897 Martha Hughes Cannon becomes the first woman state senator in the US, elected to the Utah state senate.
Science
1985 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report publishes guidelines for screening U.S. blood supply for AIDS antibodies with the ELISA test that would be available later that year. The assay was first described by Eva Engvall and Peter Perlmann in 1971.

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