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.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
American surgeon Dr Mary Walker became the first, and so far only, woman to receive the Medal of Honor.
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.
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.
Ross later achieved another ‘first’ in 1933 when she was appointed Director of the U.S. Mint by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
On the 12th December 1935, the Lebensborn registered association was established in Nazi Germany by the SS.
Anthony and fourteen other women successfully cast their votes despite it being illegal under federal law.
She continued making exhibition flights until 1916, earning her the nickname the ‘Tomboy of the Air’.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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