#OnThisDay, 23 May 1907, 19 women take their seats in the Finnish Parliament. They are the first women Parliamentarians in the world.
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#OnThisDay, 10 Oct 1903, Emmeline Pankhurst and others form the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in Manchester, UK. Eventually known as the suffragettes, they fought for women to have the vote.
[photo circa 1906]
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#OnThisDay, 23 Oct 1915, 20,000+ women march in a 5 mile long parade through New York City, USA, demanding the right to vote.
There is no record of African-American women being invited to join the march.
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#OnThisDay, 25 Oct 1947, women in Malta vote for the first time. Almost 35,000 women go to the polls.
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#OnThisDay, 5 Nov 1872, suffragists Susan B Anthony and 13 other women illegally vote in the US Presidential election.
Anthony is subsequently arrested and put on trial. She is found guilty, but refuses to pay the fine. The judge decides not to jail her.
Nine of the voters were initially reported as a "minor topic".
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#OnThisDay, 18 Aug 1920, women in the US gain the right to vote when the 19th amendment is ratified by Tennessee, the 36th state to ratify it.
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#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1906, British composer Ethel Smyth's opera 'The Wreckers' opens in Leipzig. Appalled by cuts made by the production, she removes all copies of the score from the orchestra pit to prevent further performances.
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#OnThisDay, 4 Jun 1919, the US Senate approved the 19th amendment, in theory granting all women the right to vote. It was ratified in August 1920.
But it took until 1965 to lift state level laws that denied many women their rights.
More here: https://www.neh.gov/article/winning-vote-divided-movement-brought-about-nineteenth-amendment
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#OnThisDay, 23 May 1907, 19 women take their seats in the Finnish Parliament. They are the first women Parliamentarians in the world.
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"You have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored."
#OnThisDay, 17 Jun 1873, Susan B Anthony is tried for illegally voting in the 1872 US Presidential election.
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#OnThisDay, 26 Jun 1949, all Belgian women are able to vote in Parliamentary elections for the first time.
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#OnThisDay, 2 Jul 1928, the UK's Representation of the People Act comes into effect, finally giving women equal voting rights to men. It increases the number of women eligible to vote to 15 million.
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