This Day In History
- Crime
- 2018 Michigan State University officials announced they would pay $500 million to settle claims from more than 300 women and girls who were assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar.
- Inventor
- 1882 Mary Beasley granted a patent for her design of a life raft.
- Journalism
- 2014 Broadcast journalist and TV personality Barbara Walters retires from ABC News and as co-host of the daytime program “The View.” In a landmark career that spanned some 50 years on air, the 84-year-old Walters blazed a trail for women in TV news.
- Politics
- 1770 Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
- 1991 Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress as she praised U.S.-British cooperation in the Persian Gulf War.
- Religion
- 1920 Joan of Arc was canonized by Pope Benedict XV, almost 500 years after her death in 1431.
- Sports
- 1975 Mountain climber Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to stand on the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal.
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