This Day In History
- Arts
- 1814 Jane Austen's Mansfield Park was published.
- Espionage
- 1941 British intelligence at Bletchley Park breaks German spy codes after capturing Enigma machines aboard the weather ship Muenchen. Many code-breakers and other staff at Bletchley were women, including Joan Clarke, who helped crack Enigma.
- Science
- 1960 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the first commercially produced birth control pill in the world, allowing women to control when and if they have children. Margaret Sanger initially commissioned “the pill” with funding from heiress Katherine McCormick.
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