#OnThisDay, 3 Mar 1913, thousands of women march through Washington DC in the Suffrage Parade. They are led by Inez Milholland, a lawyer, on a white horse.
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#OnThisDay, 3 Mar 1913, thousands of women march through Washington DC in the Suffrage Parade. They are led by Inez Milholland, a lawyer, on a white horse.
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#OnThisDay, 10 Mar 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson attacks, with a meat cleaver, Velázquez's painting of Venus in the National Gallery in London in protest at the treatment of Emmeline Pankhurst.
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#OnThisDay, 3 Apr 1913, suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst is sentenced to three years' penal servitude, and announces she will go on hunger strike.
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"Women are the equals of men before the law, and are equal in all their rights."
#OnThisDay, 10 May 1872, Victoria Woodhull was nominated to run for US president by the Equal Rights Party. Her nomination was ratified on June 6, 1872, making her the first woman candidate.
Woodhall had co-founded, with her sister, both a Wall Street brokerage and a newspaper. She was also an anti-abortionist and eugenics supporter.
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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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#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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