This Day In History
- Arts
- 2010 Lady Gaga swept the MTV Video Music Awards with eight wins, wearing a dress made of meat as she accepted the video of the year award for “Bad Romance.”
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1992 The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off, carrying with it Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space; Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space; and Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese national to fly on a U.S. spaceship.
- Crime
- 1910 Alice Stebbins Wells, a former social worker, becomes the first woman police officer with arrest powers in the U.S. (Los Angeles, CA).
- Politics
- 2019 With the swearing-in of Sarah Henderson to the Australian Senate, the Senate reached gender parity for the first time, with 38 men and 38 women.
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