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7 January 1999: The United States Senate began impeachment...

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7 January 1999

The United StatesSenate began impeachment hearings against President Clinton .
CNN World News: World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference, Seattle. http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/min99_e/min99_e.htm.

16 January 1920: Prohibition came into force in the United...

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16 January 1920

Prohibition came into force in the United States: President Woodrow Wilson had vetoed the Volstead Prohibition Enforcement Bill on 27-8 October 1919, only to be overruled by the House and Senate .
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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1 November 1920: US playwright Eugene O'Neill had his first...

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1 November 1920

US playwright Eugene O'Neill had his first big success when Emperor Jones, the earliest serious drama by an American with a Black protagonist, had its debut in New York in a production by the...

September 1938: The Woman's National Newspaper began publishing...

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September 1938

The Woman's National Newspaper began publishing in London; it had claimed to be the first independent newspaper in the world owned and controlled entirely by women.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1130: The Gilbertian Order of Sempringham was founded;...

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1130

The Gilbertian Order of Sempringham was founded; it educated girls in Latin and other subjects.
Gardiner, Dorothy Kempe. English Girlhood at School: A Study of Women’s Education Through Twelve Centuries. Oxford University Press, 1929.
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1870-1871: With the aid of Clara Barton, the International...

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1870-1871

With the aid of Clara Barton , the International Committee of the Red Cross set up hospitals during the Franco-Prussian War.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
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October 1632: A number of nuns at Loudun in France were...

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October 1632

A number of nuns at Loudun in France were apparently possessed by demons; their public ravings became a tourist draw, and spread to the exorcists sent to end them.
Wootton, David. “Lacanian Jesuit”. London Review of Books, 4 Oct. 2001, pp. 31-2.
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May 1874: In the Fortnightly Review, Dr Elizabeth Garrett...

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May 1874

In the Fortnightly Review, Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson refuted Henry Maudsley 's argument against women's medical schooling in his article Sex in Mind and in Education.
Collie, Michael. Henry Maudsley: Victorian Psychiatrist. West End House, 1988, http://HSS.
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7 June 1879: Charles Stewart Parnell addressed a mass...

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7 June 1879

Charles Stewart Parnell addressed a mass meeting of 8,000 Irish on the subject of tenant rights, land agitation, and fair rent.
Morton, Grenfell. Home Rule and the Irish Question. Longman, 1980.
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Wendy Cope

WC is a late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century poet who treats everyday concerns, often in demanding forms, such as the sonnet or the villanelle. Her tone is colloquial and she makes these difficult forms look...
Wendy Cope Colour photograph of Wendy Cope outdoors at the Times Cheltenham Literary Festival, 14 October 2011.

1742: A directory of rich women and heiresses was...

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1742

A directory of rich women and heiresses was published at Dublin: The Irish Register: or a List of all the Duchess Dowagers, Countesses, Widow Ladies, Maiden Ladies and Misses of Large Fortunes in England.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
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Late July 1889: The trial began in Liverpool of American...

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Late July 1889

The trial began in Liverpool of American Florence Maybrick on a charge of poisoning her English husband with arsenic.
Hartman, Mary S. Victorian Murderesses. Schocken Books, 1977.
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4 December 1952: Karen Horney died after suffering from c...

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4 December 1952

Karen Horney died after suffering from cancer.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
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1931: A car ferry across the English Channel began...

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1931

A car ferry across the English Channel began operation.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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October 1682: John Dryden anonymously published his mock-heroic...

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October 1682

John Dryden anonymously published his mock-heroic satire Mac Flecknoe (probably written in 1676).
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

6 September 1620: The Mayflower sailed from England with settlers...

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6 September 1620

The Mayflower sailed from England with settlers for New England, bent on escaping religious restrictions at home.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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12 February 1765: Thomas Percy published his edited Reliques...

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12 February 1765

Thomas Percy published his edited Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, a rediscovery of poems from the middle ages. He dedicated it to the Duchess of Northumberland , daughter of the poet and letter-writer Lady Hertford

1925: The Black US singer Josephine Baker, aged...

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1925

The Black US singer Josephine Baker , aged nineteen, met with phenomenal success in Paris; she was seen as exemplifying the Jazz Age on one hand and a new racial consciousness on the other.
Nkosi, Lewis. “An UnAmerican in New York”. London Review of Books, 24 Aug. 2000, pp. 30-2.
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Rogin, Michael. “Mon Pays”. London Review of Books, 22 Mar. 2001, pp. 21-3.
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14 November 1940: The Luftwaffe conducted a heavy raid on ...

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14 November 1940

The Luftwaffe conducted a heavy raid on Coventry.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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6 January 1757: Robert François Damiens stabbed the French...

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6 January 1757

Robert François Damiens stabbed the Frenchking in the street; he was later executed with extreme brutality as a would-be regicide: pulled limb from limb by horses, with human intervention in his dismemberment as well...

1739: Sir Richard Manningham, fashionable man-midwife...

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1739

Sir Richard Manningham , fashionable man-midwife or obstetrician, opened England's first lying-in infirmary or medical centre reserved for childbirth, in a house next-door to his own in Jermyn Street, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1738: Having failed to overcome the Jamaican Maroons...

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1738

Having failed to overcome the Jamaican Maroons or communities of escaped slaves, Britain recognised their political existence in a treaty.
Basker, James G. “’The Next Insurrection’: Johnson, Race, and Rebellion”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
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Mary Taylor

A committed proponent of female economic independence, MT was the author of some twenty articles on this and other feminist topics for Emily Faithfull 's Victoria Magazine during the 1860s and 1870s. Many of these...

1809: A woman was officially ducked as a scold...

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1809

A woman was officially ducked as a scold at Leominster in Herefordshire.
Gillis, John R. For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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January 1800: The British Magazine, a leading conservative...

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January 1800

The British Magazine, a leading conservative periodical, began publication.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.