US President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.
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Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala became the first African and first woman to lead the World Trade Organization.
The Soviet Union announced that all of its troops had officially withdrawn from Afghanistan.
Adolf Hitler announced the construction of the Volkswagen Beetle.
The first draft of the human genome was published in Nature Magazine.
An assassination attempt was made against US President Franklin D. Roosevelt by an Italian immigrant, Giuseppe Zangara.
