This Day In History
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1984 Judith A. Resnick is the second U.S. woman in space, traveling on the first flight of the space shuttle Discovery.
- Politics
- 1918 Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
- Sports
- 1972 Amidst Olga Korbut mania at the Munich Olympics, Soviet teammate Ludmilla Tourischeva wins the gymnastics individual all-round competition, her second gold medal of the Games.
- 1972 Australian teenage swimmer Shane Gould with a world record 4:19.04 for the 400m, wins her second of 3 gold medals at the Munich Olympics.
- 1987 Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman's record 2.09m (6'10½"), one of the longest-standing records in athletics.
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