This Day In History

Activism
1911 Julieta Lanteri, doctor and leading feminist activist, votes in the election for the Buenos Aires City Legislature. She had realized that the government did not make specifications regarding gender, and appealed to justice successfully, becoming the first South American woman to vote.
Aviation and Aeronautics
1939 Clara Adams set a world record for an around-the-world flight solely on scheduled passenger airlines.
1969 Apollo 11 launches, thanks in part to lead software engineer Margaret Hamilton. She and her team wrote the code and algorithms for the spacecraft’s in-flight software, which included instructions for everything from how to run it to how to detect and troubleshoot problems. Hamilton’s work contributed to Apollo 11's safe moon landing, and she also coined the term software engineering before the field was a respected, discrete discipline.
Sports
1988 Florence Griffith Joyner (Flo-Jo) set a women's world record in the 100 meters on this date at the United States Olympic track and field trials. It, and her world record in the 200 meters, have yet to be broken

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“The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble the bordertowns and are populated by the same people. The struggle has always been inner, and is played out in outer terrains. Awareness of our situation must come before inner changes, which in turn come before changes in society. Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.”
Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera

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