At 3.51pm on the afternoon of the 25th January 1890, American journalist Nellie Bly arrived in New Jersey after completing a 72 day, 24,899-mile journey around the world.
The first instalment of Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys triggered the Boy Scout movement.
Blackwell graduated first in her class and became the first woman to achieve a medical degree in the United States.
Justice Harry Blackmun wrote the majority opinion that the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution gives women in the United States the ‘fundamental’ freedom choice in family matters, including whether or not to have an abortion.
Nuclear propulsion enabled Nautilus to smash numerous records including those for both submerged speed and distance, and became the first submarine to transit the North Pole in August 1958.
President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law on 2 November 1983.
The organization now boasts more than 1.2 million members and continues to provide legal support where individual rights and liberties are threatened.
The Paris Peace Conference convened to establish the terms of the peace after the First World War.
On the 17th January 1991, the combat phase of the Gulf War began as Operation Desert Storm was launched to destroy Iraq’s military and civilian infrastructure through an enormous aerial bombing campaign.
Nationwide prohibition began on 17 January the following year, and existed until its repeal by the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933.
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