This Day In History
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1930 Amy Johnson leaves England, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia when she lands in Darwin, Northern Territory on 24 May.
- Inventor
- 1809 Mary Kies becomes the first woman to secure a US patent in her own name, for a method of "straw weaving with silk or thread" that would prove to be a boon to the New England hat-making industry.
- Science
- 1938 Dr. Dorothy H. Andersen presents results of her medical research identifying the disease cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the American Pediatric Association.
- 2008 Connie Culp, America’s first face transplant recipient, appeared before reporters at the Cleveland Clinic. (Culp underwent the procedure after being shot by her husband in a failed murder-suicide attempt.)
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