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This Day In History

Activism

2011 The first Slutwalk - a transnational movement calling for an end to rape culture, including victim blaming and slut shaming of sexual assault victims - was organized in Toronto, Ontario.

Aviation and Aeronautics

1933 The first flight over Mount Everest takes place, funded by Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, Lady Houston. The construction of the plane provided unprecedented experience for the engineers and helped convince the British government to invest in the development of military aircraft, most notably the Spitfire.

Law

2009 Same-sex marriage became legally recognized in the U.S state of Iowa with an Iowa Supreme Court decision in favor of the couples in Varnum v. Brien. on April 3, 2009. Marriage licenses became available to same-sex couples on April 27. The defendants included Katherine Varnum, Patricia Hyde, Dawn Barbouroske, Jennifer Barbouroske, Ingrid Olson, and Reva Evans

Science

1878 Despite periods of illness, Aletta Jacobs passed the final test of her licensing examination. In 1879, she became the first woman to earn a medical degree in the Netherlands.

1949 Although the Society of Women Engineers did not become a formal organization until 1950, its origins are in the late 1940s when shortages of men due to World War II provided the new opportunities for women to pursue employment in engineering. Female student groups at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, Cooper Union and City College of New York in New York City, began forming local meetings and networking activities. On April 3, 1949, seventy students attended a conference at Drexel to start organizing. These seventy students traveled from 19 universities