Female tennis player Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs, a former World No. 1 men’s player, in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’.
26th March 1830: The Book of Mormon first went on sale at E. B. Grandin’s book store
26th March 2020
Johnson was 40 years old when she enlisted, and her extensive clerical and stenographical experience made her a perfect fit for the role.
The first women’s rights convention in the United States began in Seneca Falls, New York.
On the 4th June 1913, suffragette Emily Wilding Davison was hit by King George V’s racehorse at the Epsom Derby after she stepped onto the track.
On the 21st May 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to make a solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic when he flew 3,600 miles from New York to Paris.
Elise Raymonde Deroche was the daughter of a Parisian plumber.
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.
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 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.
27th September 1908: First Model T Ford produced in Detroit
27th September 2020
26th September 1960: Kennedy and Nixon take part in their first televised debate
26th September 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018