This Day In History
- Activism
- 1850 The first National Women's Rights Convention in the US begins in Worcester, Massachusetts.
- Aviation and Aeronautics
- 1910 Blanche S. Scott became the first woman in the US to make a public solo airplane flight, reaching an altitude of 12 feet at a park in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
- 1934 Jean Piccard & Jeanette Ridlen attain record balloon height of 10.9 miles (17.5 km) over Lake Erie.
- Religion
- 0787 Byzantine empress Irene called the Second Council of Nicaea, which condemned iconoclasm as heretical and brought an end to the first iconoclast period.
- Science
- 1947 Carl and Gerty Cori are first spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes for Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen".
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