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2014 Maryam Mirzakhani is awarded the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, becoming the first Iranian and first woman to win.

Activism

1910 Suffragist Margaret Foley makes a solo balloon flight over Lawrence, Massachusetts (U.S.), tossing suffrage literature from the basket.

Arts

1952 The story of the song that gave Elvis his longest-running #1 hit (11 weeks) in the summer of 1956 began four years earlier, when “Hound Dog” was recorded for the very first time by the rhythm-and-blues singer Ellie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton in Los Angeles, California.

1952 The story of the song that gave Elvis his longest-running #1 hit (11 weeks) in the summer of 1956 began four years earlier, when “Hound Dog” was recorded for the very first time by the rhythm-and-blues singer Ellie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton in Los Angeles, California.

Military

1918 Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha May Johnson is the first woman to enlist.

Religion

1326 Neopagan religious figure Aradia de Toscano initiated into a Dianic witchcraft cult, goes on to found tradition of Stregheria (according to Wicca writer Raven Grimassi).

Sports

1935 Roller derby is born when the Transcontinental Roller Derby begins at the Chicago Coliseum. Nine of the 25 two-person, male/female teams circled a wooden, oval, banked track thousands of times, skating 11.5 hours a day, to cover 3,000 miles, the distance between Los Angeles and New York City. Winning duo Clarice Martin and Bernie McKay, held the lead for the last 11 days of the event.