This Day In History
- Arts
- 1992 A League of Their Own, directed by Penny Marshall, premieres in US cinemas. The fictionalized version of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League grossed more than $130 million at the box office and was later chosen for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
- Journalism
- 1976 American lesbian literary, theory, and art journal magazine Sinister Wisdom publishes its first issue.
- Law
- 1990 Deirdre O'Connor became Australia's first female Judge, and Chief Justice, of the Federal Court.
- Military
- 2014 Michelle J. Howard began her assignment as the U.S. Navy's first female four-star admiral.
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