This Week In American History: On September 20, 1973 Billie Jean King, a top women’s tennis player, beat Bobby Riggs, a former No. 1 ranked men’s tennis player, during what came to be known as the “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match. Bobby Riggs was a self-proclaimed male chauvinist who had claimed women were inferior to men. Billie Jean King went on to beat Bobby Riggs 6-4, 6-3, … [Read more...]