This Day In History
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1953 Jacqueline Cochran, 47, became the first woman to break the sound barrier as she piloted a Canadair F-86 Sabre jet over Rogers Dry Lake, California.
- 1991 Helen Sharman becomes the first British person in space.
- Politics
- 1152 Eleanor of Aquitaine marries the future Henry II of England.
- Religion
- 1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
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