Tuesday, July 07, 2009

TODAY IN HISTORY

1981: Sandra Day O’Connor is nominated by President Ronald Reagan to be the first female Supreme Court justice.

1865: Mary Surratt is the first woman executed by the federal government when she and three others are hanged for conspiracy in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

1928: Richard Rohwedder and his father produce the first loaf of mechanically sliced bread in Chillicothe, Ohio

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