Sandra Day O'Connor takes the oath; the Supreme Court's all-male run ends after 192 years

For 192 years, every justice who sat on the Supreme Court had been a man. That ended on September 25, 1981, when Sandra Day O'Connor, an Arizona Court of Appeals judge, took the judicial oath from Chief Justice Warren E. Burger with her husband John watching. President Reagan had nominated her in August to fulfill a campaign promise, and the Senate had confirmed her unanimously days earlier. She served on the Court until 2006…