Every New Zealand woman over the age of 21 was able to vote in the world’s first general election in a self-governing colony.
4th September 1882: Thomas Edison opens the world’s first power plant on Pearl Street in New York
4th September 2018
Every New Zealand woman over the age of 21 was able to vote in the world’s first general election in a self-governing colony.
Abraham Lincoln was elected barely five months before the outbreak of the American Civil War, and was assassinated less than a month before its end.
Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry signed a bill that redrew electoral boundaries in the first example of ‘gerrymandering’.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for an unprecedented third term as President of the United States.
The first United States presidential debate took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.