Although her rating was only temporary, it marked in important step towards the Army-Navy Nurse Act of 1947 that made such appointments permanent.
21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
21st November 2020
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’.
Female tennis player Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs, a former World No. 1 men’s player, in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’.
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.
10th April 1858: The ‘Big Ben’ bell cast in Whitechapel
10th April 2021
8th April 1904: France and Britain sign the Entente Cordiale
8th April 2021
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019