A 15-week abortion ban in Mississippi was declared unconstitutional.
The legislation was passed, allowing females to be appointed as bishops of The Church of England.
The Civil and Women's Rights Activist Dorothy Height wrote her first column in the African-American newspaper 'New York Amsterdam News.'
American suffragist Alice Paul was sentenced to seven months in prison for obstructing traffic in Washington caused by the Women's Rights march she organized.
More than 25,000 people marched down New York's 5th Avenue supporting women's suffrage.
Women voted in a general election for the first time in New Zealand.
US President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.
Utah became the second state to grant women the right to vote.
Black women's rights activist Sojourner Truth gave her famous speech 'Ain't I A Woman?' at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.
The Seneca Falls Convention became the first-ever US women's rights convention.