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Philidialia
— Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution. -
first womens right convection
Sixty-eight women and 32 men sign the Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York, which launched decades of struggle and eventually led to the enactment of the 19th Amendment allowing women the right to vote. -
A former slave women
A former slave turned abolitionist and women’s rights activist, Sojourner Truth delivers her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. -
walden
— Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden -
ecology
— The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel -
first law for women
The council of the region of Wyoming passes America's first lady testimonial regulation, conceding ladies the option to cast a ballot and hold office. In 1890, Wyoming is the 44th state conceded to the Union and turns into the primary state to permit ladies the option to cast a ballot. -
acid rain
— The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain -
Smog
— The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution -
Us congress
— US Congress created the National Park Service -
Opens first clinic for birth control
Margaret Sanger opens the primary anti-conception medication center in the United States. -
First women of congress
Jeannette Rankin of Montana, a longtime activist with the National Woman Suffrage Association, is sworn in as the first woman elected to Congress as a member of the House of Representatives. -
Women can vote
Endorsement of the nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is finished, pronouncing "the right of residents of the United States to cast a ballot will not be denied or compressed by the United States or by any State by virtue of sex." -
amelia first women to fly solo
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman, and second pilot ever (Charles Lindbergh was first) to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic. -
Rosa Parks
Black seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. The move helps launch the civil rights movement. -
rachel
— Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring -
John f kenndy,Pay act
President John F. Kennedy signs into law the Equal Pay Act, prohibiting sex-based wage discrimination between men and women performing the same job in the same workplace. -
Civil Rights act
President Lyndon B. Johnson, signs the Civil Rights Act into law; Title VII bans employment discrimination based on race, religion, national origin or sex. -
apollo
— The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise -
earth day
— First Earth Day – April 22. Millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day. US Environmental Protection Agency established -
ozone
— Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force -
kyoto
— The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries that ratify this protocol commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide -
rejects
— U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol -
paris
— U.S. announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation -
rejoin paris
— U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation