This Day In History
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1982 Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to be launched into space.
- Law
- 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Reagan.
- Politics
- 1561 Mary, Queen of Scots, aged 18, arrives in Leith, Scotland to assume the throne after spending 13 years in France.
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