This Day In History
- Inventor
- 1843 Nancy M Johnson became one of the first women to secure a US patent in her own name, for an ice cream freezer. She created a double-cylinder hand-crank ice cream machine that could create two flavors that are frozen at the same time but separately.
- Politics
- 1488 Anne becomes sovereign Duchess of Brittany, becoming a central figure in the struggle for influence that leads to the union of Brittany and France.
- Sports
- 2018 Naomi Osaka wins her first Grand Slam title, and became the first Japanese player to win the US Open.
- Writing
- 1910 Alice B. Toklas becomes the lifetime house mate of avant-garde writer Gertrude Stein. Stein, who shared a house with her brother Leo for many years, met Toklas in 1907. Toklas began staying with Stein and Leo in Paris in 1909, then moved in permanently in 1910. Stein’s brother Leo moved out in 1914. Toklas’ love and support of Stein was so important that when Stein wrote her autobiography in 1933, she titled it The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, adopting Toklas’ persona as the narrator of her own memoirs.
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