This Day In History
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1963 Valentina Tereshkova is the first and youngest woman to have flown in space with a solo mission on the Vostok 6.
- 2012 China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.
- Politics
- 1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland. (She escaped almost a year later but was later imprisoned again.)
- Sports
- 1883 Baseball’s first “Ladies’ Day” took place as the New York Gothams offered women free admission to a game against the Cleveland Spiders. (New York won, 5-2.)
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