Annie Dove Denmark (1887–1974) was an American music educator and academic administrator who was the fifth president of Anderson College (now Anderson University) in Anderson, South Carolina, from 1928 to 1953. A talented musician in her youth, Denmark attended what is now Meredith College and graduated with an artist's diploma in piano in 1908. She began teaching piano at Anderson in 1917. She is commonly, though incorrectly, cited as the first woman president of a college or university in South Carolina. She oversaw Anderson's transition from a four-year college to a two-year junior college, making it the first junior college in the state. The school's debt was paid off by the South Carolina Baptist Convention in May 1938, and attendance increased for several years after World War II when the school enrolled more men than it ever had since becoming co-educational in 1931. She left office in May 1953, concluding a 25-year presidency that remains the longest in Anderson's history.

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1779:

Native Hawaiians killed the English explorer Captain James Cook after he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief of the island of Hawaii. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook

1924:

The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company was renamed as International Business Machines (IBM), later growing into one of the world's largest companies by market capitalization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM

1990:

NASA's Voyager 1 space probe took the iconic Pale Blue Dot photograph of Earth from a record distance of 40.5 au (6.06 billion km; 3.76 billion mi). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

2007:

The first of several bombings in Zahedan, Iran, killed 18 members of the Revolutionary Guards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Zahedan_bombings

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