Wednesday, June 30, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

JUNE 30
1870:Ada H. Kepley becomes the first woman to receive a law degree when she graduates from the Union College of Law, now Northwestern University Law School.

1906: Responding to the “muckraking” reporting of Upton Sinclair and other Progressive era authors, Congress passes the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act.

1936: Former Atlanta Journal reporter Margaret Mitchell publishes the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gone With the Wind.

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