Source: Good News Network
On this day 73 years ago, women in France were finally awarded the right to vote for first time—decades later than most Western countries, including New Zealand, Australia, the US, UK, Finland, and Norway. (1945)
(Photo by Christopher Rose, CC license)
More Good News on this Date:
- Thomas Edison, after frustrating months testing the usual choice, platinum wire, to light an electric bulb, decided to try carbonized cotton thread–and the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb lasted 13½ hours before burning out (1879)
- Warren G. Harding delivered the first speech by a sitting U.S. President that condemned the lynching of African-Americans in the deep South, despite evidence of wide opposition among white voters (1921)
- The first edition of Ernest Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls was published, a book about a guerrilla fighter during the Spanish Civil War, which sold half a million copies, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize (1940)
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