This Day In History
- Crime
- 1989 21-year-old actress Rebecca Schaeffer is murdered at her Los Angeles home by Robert John Bardo, a mentally unstable man who had been stalking her. Schaeffer’s death helped lead to the passage in California of legislation aimed at preventing stalking.
- Inventor
- 1978 While working for NASA, Barbara Askins was tasked with finding a way to improve the quality of photos taken from space. Her method of enhancing photo negatives was far more widely applicable, as it could be used to clarify photos after they were already developed. Her technology, patented on July 18, 1978 has been adapted for use with X-rays and historical photo restoration.
- Politics
- 1940 Eleanor Roosevelt spoke to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago Stadium, becoming the first presidential spouse to address such a gathering.
- Sports
- 1976 At the Montreal Olympics, 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci performed in the uneven bars event, and was awarded a perfect score of 10. Because the scoreboard only allowed three digits, it had to display her score as 1.00.
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