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
Prior to the adoption of universally accepted time zones, the vast majority of settlements around the world observed local mean solar time.
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
On the 3rd September 1939, the Second World War officially began when France and the United Kingdom – together with Australia and New Zealand – declared war on Germany.
7th December 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor
7th December 2019
5th December 1934: Wal-Wal Incident between Italy and Abyssinia
5th December 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018