Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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19 June 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed...
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19 June 1953
Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg
were executed in Sing Sing Prison, New York State, on charges of passing atomic secrets to the USSR.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
1 December 1955: Black seamstress Rosa Lee Parks, sitting...
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1 December 1955
Black seamstress Rosa Lee Parks
, sitting as local law required in the rear section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat to a white man at the driver's...
1974: The Supreme Court of Ireland ruled that a...
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1974
The Supreme Court
of Ireland ruled that a law forbidding the import of contraceptives was unconstitutional.
Francome, Colin. “United Kingdom”. International Handbook on Abortion, edited by Paul Sachdev, Greenwood, 1988, pp. 458-61.
