This Day In History
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1911 Beatrix de Rijk becomesthe Netherlands's first licensed female pilot.
- Science
- 1948 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya.
- 2014 May-Britt Moser of Norway received the Nobel Prize in medicine, sharing the award with two fellow researchers. Moser and her husband were recognised "for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain", giving humans awareness of one's location and how to find the way to other places.
- Writing
- 1952 Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opens in London. The production ran continuously until 16 March 2020, when the stage performances had to be temporarily discontinued during the COVID-19 pandemic. It then re-opened on 17 May 2021.
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