This Day In History
- 1692 Last people hanged for witchcraft (eight) in the US, 19 hanged overall, with six other deaths during Salem witch trials.
- Espionage
- 1943 British Special Operations Executive agent Pearl Witherington parachuted into occupied France. She became a Resistance leader with a million-franc bounty on her head and eventually presided over the surrender of more than 18,000 German troops.
- Inventor
- 1819 Sophia Usher became one of the first women to secure a US patent in her own name, for "cream of tartar, carbonated liquid."
- Politics
- 1896 Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
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