This Day In History
- Inventor
- 1834 Ethel H Porter became one of the first women to secure a US patent in her own name, for a method for "straw cutting and fodder."
- Politics
- 1489 The last Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro is forced to abdicate by Venice.
- 1998 India’s Congress party picked Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born widow of assassinated prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, as its new president.
- Science
- 1942 Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin.
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