1914
America
..... Florence Allen was admitted to the Ohio Bar and the first meeting of the Women's Peace Party was convened in New York
..... the first newspaper to introduce regular film reviews was the Chicago Tribune which appointed Jack Lawson as film critic. Unfortunately he was killed shortly afterwards in an accident and his place was taken by Miss Audrie Alspaugh who wrote under the by-line 'Kitty Kelly'. Her column was a huge success and she became the best 'disliked' name in the world of film studios and it was said that 'Kitty Kelly' could make or break a picture in the Middle West
United Kingdom
..... with the outbreak of the First World War, the Women's Social and Political Union suspended its militancy. Christabel Pankhurst returned from Paris and the suffragettes gave their support to the war effort. Women were recruited in large numbers for munitions work as more and more men left, and began to work in areas from which they had previously been excluded
..... the first women attended the Guards Church Parade at Pirbright (FANYs) and in October the first women arrived in France as ambulance drivers with the FANYs
..... the Brownies began as Rosebuds but the name did not catch on and after a number of suggestions Baden-Powell chose to call them Brownies after the fairy who does good-turns for people in a discreet and mysterious way. He took his inspiration from Juliana Ewing's book The Brownies and Other Tales. By 1916 there were 2,500 Brownies and by the time the movement celebrated its 75th birthday there were over 400,000 meeting all over the country in 20,000 packs
..... the Ayrton fan, invented by Hertha Ayrton, was used for dispersing poisonous gases during the First World War
Dated items
January 3rd ..... UNITED KINGDOM ..... Sylvia Pankhurst was rearrested under the Cat and Mouse Act
January 14th ..... FRANCE ..... actress Sarah Bernhardt received the Legion d' Honneur
April 17th ..... UNITED KINGDOM ..... Yarmouth Pier was destroyed by a suffragette bomb
June 1st ..... UNITED KINGDOM ..... suffragettes burnt a church near Henley