Indian lawyer and politician Pratibha Patil was sworn in as president of India, becoming the first woman to hold the office. 2007.
A Concorde supersonic airplane—Air France flight 4590—crashed outside Paris, killing all 109 people on board and four others on the ground; the event was believed to have hastened the end of all Concorde operations three years later. 2000.
Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space. 1984.
Louise Brown, the first human conceived using in vitro fertilization, was born in England. 1978.
At the Newport (Rhode Island) Folk Festival, American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan initially eschewed his acoustic guitar to go electric; the controversial performance is considered one of the most pivotal moments in the history of rock and roll. 1965.
