Law No. 38 in Iceland was approved, making abortion legal.
Iceland was the first western country to legalize abortion.
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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.'
A 15-week abortion ban in Mississippi was declared unconstitutional.
Maryland passed its first anti-amalgamation law.
The Scopes Monkey Trial took place in Dayton, Tennessee.
The United States Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in Washington, DC, could not refuse to serve Black patrons.
