Rhea Seddon (born 1947) is an American surgeon and retired astronaut for
NASA. After being selected as part of the first group of NASA astronauts
to include women in 1978, she flew on three Space Shuttle flights, as
mission specialist on STS-51-D and STS-40, and as payload commander for
STS-58, accumulating over 722 hours in space. On these flights, she
built repair tools for a US Navy satellite and performed medical
experiments. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and
the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Seddon was awarded her
doctor of medicine degree in 1973. During her residency with the
University of Tennessee hospitals, she was the only woman in the General
Surgery Residency Program. Before, during and after her career in the
astronaut program, she worked in hospital emergency departments. She
retired from NASA in November 1997 and became Chief Medical Officer of
the Vanderbilt Medical Group.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhea_Seddon>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1840:
British representatives and Māori chiefs first signed the
Treaty of Waitangi, widely regarded to be the founding document of New
Zealand.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Waitangi>
1952:
Elizabeth II became the queen regnant of the United Kingdom,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon upon
the death of her father, King George VI.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_VI>
1976:
Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admitted that the
company had paid out approximately US$3 million in bribes to the office
of Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals>
2018:
The SpaceX launch vehicle Falcon Heavy made its maiden flight.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy_test_flight>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
rickroll:
1. To mislead (someone) into following a seemingly innocuous hyperlink,
or sometimes a QR code, that leads to a YouTube video of Rick Astley's
song "Never Gonna Give You Up".
2. (by extension) To surprise or trick (someone) into listening to this
song in a live setting.
3. (Internet slang) An act of or attempt at rickrolling.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rickroll>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Americans don't go around carrying guns with the idea they're
using them to influence other Americans. There's no reason why on the
street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.
--Ronald Reagan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan>