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JANUARY 13
1978:NASA selects six women — Anna Fisher, Shannon Lucid, Judith Resnik, Sally Ride, Rhea Seddon and Kathryn Sullivan — to be the first female astronaut candidates in the U.S. space program. All six women will eventually fly on space shuttle missions.
1898: "J'Accuse," Émile Zola's open letter to French President Félix Faure, is published in the newspaper L'Aurore in Paris. In his letter, Zola condemns the French military's cover-up of evidence proving the innocence of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a general staff officer convicted of treason in an anti-Semitic trial.
1957: The Wham-O toy company begins producing the Pluto Platter, an aerodynamic plastic disc designed by Walter Morrison. The toy was soon renamed the Frisbee and became a national craze.
1978:NASA selects six women — Anna Fisher, Shannon Lucid, Judith Resnik, Sally Ride, Rhea Seddon and Kathryn Sullivan — to be the first female astronaut candidates in the U.S. space program. All six women will eventually fly on space shuttle missions.
1898: "J'Accuse," Émile Zola's open letter to French President Félix Faure, is published in the newspaper L'Aurore in Paris. In his letter, Zola condemns the French military's cover-up of evidence proving the innocence of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a general staff officer convicted of treason in an anti-Semitic trial.
1957: The Wham-O toy company begins producing the Pluto Platter, an aerodynamic plastic disc designed by Walter Morrison. The toy was soon renamed the Frisbee and became a national craze.
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