This Day In History
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1927 The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear. One of these was 22-year-old Mildred Doran, in her eponymous plane, the Miss Doran, which disappeared and has never been found. Mrs. William P. Erwin also participated in at least one leg of the race with her husband, but was not onboard when his plane later disappeared.
- Law
- 2017 On the heels of Jordan and Tunisia scrapping discriminatory rape laws, the Lebanese Parliament agreed on 16 August 2017 to abolish the Penal Code Article 522, the infamous “rape law” or “rape-marriage” law, which exempted a rapist from punishment if he married his victim
- Sports
- 1964 Mildred Sampson of New Zealand runs female world marathon record 3:19:33 in Auckland, New Zealand.
- 1981 American swimmer Mary T. Meagher breaks her own world women's 100 m butterfly record (57.93) in Brown Deer, Wisconsin; holds 100/200m double world record.
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