This Day In History
- Arts
- 2013 Orange is the New Black, based on Piper Kerman's memoir and adapted for television by Jenji Kohan, premieres.
- Inventor
- 1871 Margaret Knight granted one of her several patents, this one for a machine that makes flat-bottomed paper bags. A man, Charles Annan, saw her device and tried to patent it as his own. She sued, and, in response to his argument that no woman could be capable of designing such a machine, Knight presented her copious, meticulously detailed hand-drawn blueprints. Annan, who had no such evidence to offer himself, was swiftly defeated.
- Sports
- 1900 Charlotte Cooper became the first female individual champion by winning the women's singles tennis competition.
- Writing
- 1960 Harper Lee's American classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird published.
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