The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing all American women the right to vote.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing all American women the right to vote.
Alice Huyler Ramsey became the first woman to drive an automobile across a continent when she completed a 59-day road trip from New York to San Francisco.
The first women’s rights convention in the United States began in Seneca Falls, New York.
Elise Raymonde Deroche was the daughter of a Parisian plumber.
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.
The first ever women’s cricket match was played on Gosden Common near Guildford in Surrey.
Theatre in England had been banned by the Puritan Long Parliament in 1642 but, following the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, the ban was lifted.
American surgeon Dr Mary Walker became the first, and so far only, woman to receive the Medal of Honor.
Although her rating was only temporary, it marked in important step towards the Army-Navy Nurse Act of 1947 that made such appointments permanent.
Blackwell graduated first in her class and became the first woman to achieve a medical degree in the United States.
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