Margaret Abbott (June 15, 1878 – June 10, 1955) was an American amateur golfer and the first American woman to win an Olympic event: the women's golf tournament at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Born in Calcutta in 1878, Abbott moved with her family to Chicago in 1884. She joined the Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, Illinois, where she was coached by Charles B. Macdonald and H. J. Whigham. In 1899, she traveled with her mother to Paris to study art. The following year, along with her mother, she signed up for a women's golf tournament without realizing it was part of the second modern Olympics. Abbott won with a score of 47 strokes and was awarded a porcelain bowl; her mother tied for seventh. In December 1902, she married the writer Finley Peter Dunne. They moved to New York and had four children. Abbott died never realizing she won an Olympic event. She was not well known until University of Florida professor Paula Welch researched her life. The New York Times published her belated obituary in 2018.
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1520:
Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Exsurge Domine, censuring 41 propositions from Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses and subsequent writings, and threatening him with excommunication unless he recanted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exsurge_Domine
1921:
Bessie Coleman became the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Coleman
1995 :
Western Greece was struck by an earthquake registering 6.4–6.5 Mw that killed 26 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Aigio_earthquake
2006:
US president George W. Bush designated 140,000 square miles (360,000 km2) around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, now one of the world's largest protected areas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papah%C4%81naumoku%C4%81kea_Marine_National_Monument
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glacis: 1. A gentle incline. 2. (geomorphology) A gentle sloping landform created by the deposition or erosion of material. 3. (military) 4. (architecture, also figuratively) A gentle incline in front of a fortification which protects it from cannon fire and exposes attackers to more effective return fire from defenders. 5. In full glacis plate: the angled armour plate on the front of a tank which protects it from projectiles; also (often nautical), such a plate protecting an opening (for example, on a ship). 6. (post) A device for sorting mail which slides parcels across a sloped surface. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glacis
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Drovers were racing brokenly across the milling hogs like wind through grass until a whole echelon of them careering up the outer flank forsook the land and faired into space with torn cries. Now the entire herd had begun to wheel wider and faster along the bluff and the outermost ranks swung centrifugally over the escarpment row on row wailing and squealing and above this the howls and curses of the drovers that now upreared in the moil of flesh they tended and swept with dust had begun to assume satanic looks with their staves and wild eyes as if they were no true swineherds but disciples of darkness got among these charges to herd them to their doom. --Cormac McCarthy https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy