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Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin
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First women to graduate medical school.
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first women to graduate from medical school and become a doctor in the U.S. -
Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden
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ecology
The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel -
coined
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 -
Womens marching in Suffragette parade Washington, DC
The Women's marching in Suffragette parade was in Washington, DC. This happened 103 years ago! Women gathered to march from the U.S. capitol all the way to treasury building. -
Petition from the women of Georgia protesting
This petition was to help get the women of the United States the right to vote. -
US congress created the national park service
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Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Womens right to vote was passed by congress this day. For all of american women the right to vote. -
House Resolution
Winifred Stanley introduced that women should get payed equally for there work. -
Rosa parks
This women refused to give up her seat to a white male on a bus but this one act helped get the civil rights movement -
Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring
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The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise
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earth day
April 22., millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day organized by Gaylord Nelson, former senator of Wisconsin, and Denis Hayes, Harvard graduate student. US Environmental Protection Agency established -
Title IX
This was about equality and no one being able to exclude participation in anything based off gender. -
sandra day o connor becomes first woman to serve on the supreme court
Sandra was the first women who became apart of the supreme court -
Sandra Day O'Connor, Sally Ride
The first women to go into space! -
Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force
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the koyoto protocol
The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries that ratify this protocol commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases -
US rejected the kyoto protocol
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Hilary clinton
She became the first women to recieve a presidential nomination. -
Paris agreement
U.S. announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation -
rejoin the paris agreement
U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation
