This Day In History
- 2020 Breonna Taylor shot and killed by police in her own bed as they raided the wrong house in the middle of the night. No one was charged in her death.
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1928 Eileen Vollick becomes Canada's first licensed female pilot.
- Crime
- 1964 Bar manager Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her Queens, New York, home; the case gained notoriety over the supposed reluctance of Genovese’s neighbors to respond to her cries for help.
- Sports
- 1986 Susan Butcher won the first of three straight and four total Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Races in Alaska.
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