She continued making exhibition flights until 1916, earning her the nickname the ‘Tomboy of the Air’.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
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.
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.
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.
On 6 February 1918 the Representation of the People Act received Royal Assent, marking the start of female suffrage in Great Britain.
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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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