1916
America
..... Margaret Higgins Sanger, the American birth control pioneer, opened her first clinic in Brooklyn but she and her sister were put into prison. She then issued Birth Control Review, continued to lecture and in time won a hearing and eventually the cooperation of the medical profession
Around The World
..... Mildred Hill, who composed the tune to Happy Birthday To You died in 1916 and her sister Patty, who wrote the words, died in 1946. It was said at the time that beneficiaries will still reap the rewards for another twelve years until the copyright runs out
..... the FIRST uniformed women to wear trousers ( as opposed to breeches) were conductresses and guards of the Prussian State Railways when it was ruled that female employees should be issued with the same costume as men
Dated items
June 27th ..... UNITED KINGDOM ..... King George declared that the Military medal could be awarded to women
November 7th ..... AMERICA ..... Jeannette Rankin became the first woman member of the US Congress when she entered the House of Representatives as a Republican