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4th June 1913: Suffragette Emily Davison hit by a racehorse at Epsom Derby

4th June 2020
Tagged as: George V, Horse Racing, Suffrage, Suffragettes, Women, Women's Suffrage, WSPU

On the 4^th June 1913, suffragette Emily Wilding Davison was hit by King George V’s racehorse at the Epsom Derby after she stepped onto the track.

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10th October 1903: Foundation of Women’s Social & Political Union

10th October 2019
Tagged as: Britain, Militancy, Politics, Suffrage, Suffragettes, Women's Suffrage, WSPU

On the 10^th October 1903 the Women’s Social and Political Union, whose members came to be known as suffragettes, was founded at the Manchester home of Sylvia and Emmeline Pankhurst.

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4th June 1913: Suffragette Emily Davison hit by a racehorse at Epsom Derby

10th October 1903: Foundation of Women’s Social & Political Union

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21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182

9th August 1173: Construction begins on the Leaning Tower of Pisa

5th February 1958: Nuclear bomb lost off Tybee Island in Georgia, USA after an in-air collision

17th March 1992: White South Africans vote to end apartheid in a referendum

10th April 1858: The ‘Big Ben’ bell cast in Whitechapel

9th April 1767: John Hancock forcibly removes British customs officials from his ship

8th April 1904: France and Britain sign the Entente Cordiale

7th April 1954: President Eisenhower first described the ‘domino theory’ of the spread of communism during a news conference

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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