This Day In History

Crime
2018 Michigan State University officials announced they would pay $500 million to settle claims from more than 300 women and girls who were assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar.
Inventor
1882 Mary Beasley granted a patent for her design of a life raft.
Journalism
2014 Broadcast journalist and TV personality Barbara Walters retires from ABC News and as co-host of the daytime program “The View.” In a landmark career that spanned some 50 years on air, the 84-year-old Walters blazed a trail for women in TV news.
Politics
1770 Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
1991 Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress as she praised U.S.-British cooperation in the Persian Gulf War.
Religion
1920 Joan of Arc was canonized by Pope Benedict XV, almost 500 years after her death in 1431.
Sports
1975 Mountain climber Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to stand on the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal.

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