This Day In History
- 1612 Nine Pendle witches hanged at Gallows Hill in Lancaster, England.
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1977 NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Before the Voyager program (in which Voyager 1 and 2 probes launched in the summer of 1977), planetary science was a male-dominated field. For planetary scientist and astrophysicist Fran Bagenal, planetary astronomer Heidi Hammel, Voyager imaging team Candice Hansen, and planetary scientist Carolyn Porco, breaking into these ranks was no small feat.
- Sports
- 1922 First Women's World Games (first track and field competition for women) is conducted over 1-day at the Pershing Stadium in Paris.
- 2016 South African middle distance runner Caster Semenya retains her Olympic women's 800m title in a time of 1:55.28 in the final in Rio de Janeiro.
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