In science and technology, spheres of society where women are woefully underrepresented, this day in history offers a bountiful exception. Here are the milestones:
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1865, “James Barry,” the first woman physician in modern times, compelled to disguise herself as a man in order to practice her profession, dies.

1920, Rosalind Franklin, the unheralded co-discoverer of DNA, is born.

1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world’s first test-tube baby, is born.

1984, cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to walk in space.

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