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Virginia Apgar
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Virginia Apgar

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Virginia Apgar was an American physician, obstetrical anesthesiologist and medical researcher, best known as the inventor of the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth in order to combat infant mortality. In 1952, she developed the 10-point Apgar score to assist physi…

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Katherine Noel Valentine Brosnahan Spade was an American fashion designer and entrepreneur. She was the co-founder and c…

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On This Day

10 events
1998
White_supremacy
White supremacists murdered James Byrd Jr., an African American, by chaining him behind a pickup truck and dragging him along an asphalt road in Jasper, Texas.
1981
Israeli_Air_Force
The Israeli Air Force attacked a nuclear reactor under the assumption that it was about to start producing plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear-weapons program.
1975
1975_Cricket_World_Cup
The inaugural edition of the Cricket World Cup, the premier international championship of men's One Day International cricket, began in England.
1969
Blind_Faith
In their only UK concert, the rock supergroup Blind Faith, featuring Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Ginger Baker, debuted in London's Hyde Park in front of 100,000 fans.
1965
Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut that a Connecticut law prohibiting the use of contraceptives violated the "right to marital privacy".
1948
Shostakovich_v._Twentieth_Century-Fox_Film_Corp.
In Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., a New York trial court declined to issue a permanent injunction in favor of several Soviet composers against the distribution of The Iron Curtain, the first anti-Soviet Hollywood film of the Cold War era.
1948
1948_anti-Jewish_riots_in_Oujda_and_Jerada
Anti-Jewish riots broke out in the French protectorate in Morocco, during which 44 people were killed and 150 injured.
1917
World_War_I
First World War: The British Army detonated 19 ammonal mines under German lines, killing perhaps 10,000 in the deadliest non-nuclear man-made explosion in history during the Battle of Messines.
1900
Temperance_movement_in_the_United_States
American temperance activist Carrie Nation entered a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas, and destroyed its stock of alcoholic beverages with rocks.
1892
Homer_Plessy
Homer Plessy, a mixed-race man from New Orleans, was arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.

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