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Gina Haspel becomes the first woman serving as director of CIA

Gina Cheri Haspel is an American intelligence officer serving as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2018. She is the first woman to hold the post on a permanent basis and was previously the Deputy Director under Mike Pompeo during the early presidency of Donald Trump.

Chelsea Manning is released from prison after seven years

Chelsea Manning is an American activist and whistleblower. She is a former United States Army soldier who was convicted by court-martial of violations of the Espionage Act and other offences, after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly 750,000 classified military and diplomatic documents. She was imprisoned until 2017 when her sentence was commuted.

Facebook sells stocks to public in IPO

Facebook held its initial public offering in 2012, and began selling stock to the public three months later, reaching an original peak market capitalization of $104 billion, a new record. Facebook makes most of its revenue from advertisements that appear onscreen.

Massachusetts becomes the first state to legalize same-sex marriages

Same-sex marriage has been legally recognized in the U.S state of Massachusetts since 2004 as a result of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that it was unconstitutional under the Massachusetts Constitution to allow only opposite-sex couples to marry.

Shawn Nelson steals a tank in San Diego and proceeds to go on a rampage

Shawn Timothy Nelson was an American plumber and U.S. Army veteran who stole an M60A3 Patton tank from a U.S. National Guard armory in San Diego, California and went on a rampage. He destroyed cars, fire hydrants, and an RV before being shot and killed by a policeman.

Senate Watergate Hearings begin

The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s following a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon Administration's subsequent attempt to cover up its involvement. It resulted in the Senate voting to approve Resolution S.Res. 60 and establish a select committee to investigate Watergate, with Sam Ervin as the chairman. In May 1973, the Senate Watergate Committee began nationally televised hearings which became a national politico-cultural event.

The first Tim Horton's coffee and donut shop opens in Hamilton, Ontario

The company was founded by Canadian hockey player Tim Horton and business partner, Jim Charade, after an initial venture in hamburger restaurants. Horton partnered with investor Ron Joyce who assumed control over operations after Horton died. Joyce expanded the chain into a multimillion-dollar franchise.

US Supreme Court rule against racially segregated public schools

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision effectively overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which allowed state-sponsored segregation.

RAF bombs destroy three dams in German Ruhr valley

Operation Chastise was an attack on German dams carried out by Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron, later called the Dam Busters, using a purpose-built "bouncing bomb" developed by Barnes Wallis. The Möhne and Edersee Dams were breached, causing catastrophic flooding of the Ruhr valley and of villages in the Eder valley.

The New York Stock Exchange is established

The earliest recorded organization of securities trading in New York can be traced to 1792 when twenty-four brokers signed the Buttonwood Agreement which set a floor commission rate charged to clients and bound the signers to give preference to the other signers in securities sales.

The city of Montreal is established

Montreal is the second-most populous municipality in Canada. It was established on the island of Montreal in 1642 when a mission called Ville Marie was built as part of a project to create a French colonial empire. Ville Marie was founded on the southern shore of Montreal island, and the settlement included a chapel and a hospital under the command of Jeanne Mance.

Anniversaries of the (in)famous

born 1925

Idi Amin

born 1971

Gina Raimondo