This Day In History
- Arts
- 1981 "Endless Love" single released by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie (Billboard Song of the Year 1981, Billboard Greatest Song Duet of All-Time).
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1911 Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
- 1931 Elvy Kalep passed her pilot's test in Germany, becoming the first qualified female pilot from Estonia.
- Military
- 1987 Nurse Mary R Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America.
- Politics
- 1979 Prime Minister Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms government in Portugal.
- 1980 Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
- Sports
- 1982 East German swimmer Petra Schneider breaks her own 400m medley world record by 0:19 (4:36.10) at the World Championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
- Writing
- 1944 Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl hiding out in Nazi-occupied Holland whose diary came to serve as a symbol of the Holocaust, writes her final entry three days before she and her family are arrested and placed in concentration camps.
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