France became the first country in the world to include access to abortion in its constitution.
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US President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.
The United States Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in Washington, DC, could not refuse to serve Black patrons.
Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment and became the last state to approve the abolition of slavery.
The Standard Time Act was signed into US law, introducing Daylight Saving Time.
The legal age required for voting in the USA was reduced to 18.
