This Day In History
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1941 Alma Heflin becomes the first female test pilot for commercial aircraft, for Piper Corporation in Pennsylvania.
- Inventor
- 1828 Henrietta Cooper became one of the first women to secure a US patent in her own name, for "straw, leghorn, whitening."
- Politics
- 1028 Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.
- Writing
- 1890 Mabel Loomis Todd publishes the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poetry, four years after the writer's 1886 death.
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