1893 Women vote in a national election for the first time, in the New Zealand general election.
1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Prussia & Germany abdicates.
1919 American-born Lady Nancy Astor elected as the 1st female member of the British House of Commons.
1934 Winston Churchill tells British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin not to under estimate German air power.
1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet at the Tehran Conference in Iran to map out strategy.
1946 Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert sentenced to death.
1984 Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.
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