The US Defense Secretary announced that the US Military would open all combat roles to women.
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The Civil and Women's Rights Activist Dorothy Height wrote her first column in the African-American newspaper 'New York Amsterdam News.'
Black women's rights activist Sojourner Truth gave her famous speech 'Ain't I A Woman?' at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.
The US Air Force launched the Discoverer 1 reconnaissance satellite.
In the United Kingdom, women over the age of 30 were granted the right to vote.
American suffragist Alice Paul was sentenced to seven months in prison for obstructing traffic in Washington caused by the Women's Rights march she organized.
