The Inter-Allied Women's Conference opened in Paris on 10 February 1919,
several weeks after the start of the Paris Peace Conference, the meeting
of the victorious Allies of World War I to set peace terms for the
Central Powers. The women's conference was convened after the war to
introduce women's issues to the process. On 18 January Marguerite de
Witt-Schlumberger, vice-president of the International Woman Suffrage
Alliance, asked Woodrow Wilson, the U.S. president, to allow women to
participate in the discussions that would inform the treaty
negotiations. After first being rebuffed, suffragists were allowed to
make a presentation before the Commission on International Labour
Legislation, and on 10 April a resolution was presented to the League of
Nations Commission. Though the women failed to achieve many of their
aims, they gained the right for women to serve in the League of Nations
organisation.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Allied_Women%27s_Conference>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1655:
The court of Northampton County, Virginia, issued a ruling that
made John Casor the first person of African descent in the Thirteen
Colonies to be declared a slave for life as a result of a civil suit.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Casor>
1963:
The Ba'ath Party came to power in a coup d'état by a clique of
quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National
Council for the Revolutionary Command.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Syrian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
1978:
BBC Radio 4 began broadcasting Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction radio series that was later
adapted into novels, a television series, and other formats.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_%28radio_series%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
muliebrity:
1. (literary) The state or quality of being a woman; the features of a
woman's nature; femininity, womanhood.
2. (literary) The state of attainment of womanhood following maidenhood.
3. (physiology) The state of puberty in a female.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/muliebrity>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Jr.>
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