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Today's featured article Cora Agnes Benneson (1851–1919) was an American attorney, lecturer, and writer. She graduated from the University of Michigan, earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1878, a Bachelor of Laws in 1880, and a Master of Arts in 1883, and was licensed to practice law in Illinois and Michigan. From 1883 to 1885, she traveled the world to learn about legal cultures and how they affected women. When she returned to the United States, she undertook a nationwide lecture tour to speak about her travels and observations. In 1886 Benneson briefly worked as an editor of West Publishing's law reports before taking up a history fellowship at Bryn Mawr College under then-professor Woodrow Wilson. In 1888 she moved to Boston, where she continued to write and lecture. She was licensed in Massachusetts in 1894 and opened a law practice. She was made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1899 and elected secretary of its Social and Economic Science Section in 1900. (Full article...) Recently featured: Hanford Engineer Works Jacques Offenbach UEFA Euro 2004 final On this day... July 17: Constitution Day in South Korea (1948); World Emoji Day Russian imperial family, 1913 1850 – William Cranch Bond and John Adams Whipple took a daguerreotype of Vega, the first astrophotograph of a star other than the Sun. 1862 – The garrotting and robbery of James Pilkington, a British member of Parliament, led to a moral panic in London. 1918 – Russian Revolution: Tsar Nicholas II and his family (pictured) were murdered by Bolsheviks at Yekaterinburg. 1944 – Laden with munitions for World War II, two ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California, killing 320 people and injuring more than 400 others. 2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. Edward the Elder (d. 924) Jadwiga of Poland (d. 1399) Angela Merkel (b. 1954) Otto Piene (d. 2014) More anniversaries: July 16 July 17 July 18

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