First woman in space:
On June 16, 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova [1] became the first woman to travel in space, having been launched into orbit aboard the spacecraft Vostok [2] 6, which completed 48 orbits in 71 hours.
Arrest of O. J. Simpson:
On June 12, 1994, American gridiron football hero O.J. Simpson [3] was charged with the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, though after a sensational trial [4] he was acquitted the following year. The public knows that the court got that wrong.
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A Brief Look at History
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