1/4 Nikita Khrushchev (R), and cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (2nd-R), Pavel Popovich (C) and Yuri Gagarin gather at the Lenin Mausoleum on June 22, 1963, during a demonstration dedicated to the successful space flights of the Vostok-5 and Vostok-6 spacecraft. On June 16, 1963, the Soviet Union put the first woman into space, cosmonaut Tereshkova. File Photo courtesy of RIA Novosti/Wikimedia On this date in history: In 1883, the New York Giants had the first Ladies' Day baseball game. Advertisement In 1909, President William Howard Taft, in a message to Congress, recommended the adoption of a constitutional amendment giving the federal...