Person report

★19 Sep 1893
New Zealand became the first country to introduce universal suffrage, following the women's suffrage movement led by Kate Sheppard.

★18 Sep 1895
Daniel David Palmer gave the first chiropractic adjustment, to deaf janitor Harvey Lillard.

★12 Nov 1905
In a referendum, 79% of voters opted to keep Norway a monarchy, paving the way for Haakon VII to take the throne.

★28 Jun 1911
The first meteorite to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars fell to Earth in Abu Hummus, Egypt.

★15 Apr 1912
The passenger liner RMS Titanic sank about two hours and forty minutes after colliding with an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people.

★11 Jan 1914
The largest volcano explosion in 20th-century Japan began amidst a series of earthquakes, causing the volcanic island of Sakurajima to join to the mainland at Kagoshima and 58 deaths.

★11 Jul 1914
USS Nevada, the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought", was launched.

★03 May 1915
The oldest continually operational Royal Air Force station, RAF Northolt, opened as the home to No. 4 Reserve Aeroplane Squadron.

★27 Dec 1929
Joseph Stalin announced the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class", beginning a period of political repression against prosperous peasants.

★03 Feb 1933
Adolf Hitler announced that the conquest of Lebensraum in Eastern Europe, and its "ruthless Germanisation", were the geopolitical objectives of Reich foreign policy.

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