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British Women's Auxilary Army Corps is offically established
British Army Council Instruction Number 1069 formly establishes the British Auxulary Army Corps, otherwise known as WAAC. This allowed female volunteers to serve alongside men counterparts during World War I. Womens started leaving factories to provide more support. By the end of the war 80,000 women had served in three womens forces and were considered to have made a greta contribution. -
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July 7th 1946
Future President Jimmy Crater gets married to his wife Eleanor Rosalynn Smith at the Plains Methodist Church in Plains, Georgia. When the couple met, she was 18 and working in a hair salon. He was 21 and a recent graduate of the Annapolis Naval Academy. -
Blizzard of 1996
The year of 1996, started right off with big news of a mosterous blizzard. Snow began falling in Washington, DC and continued up the easter seaboard. The blizzard took 154 victums and casued over $1 billion in damage. A record of 20 inches fell in one day in Virginia. With the snow fall and gust of winds reaching up to 50 miles per hour snow drifts piled up makingtraveling impossible. Even the Federal Goverment was granted snow days by Bill Clinton. Happy New Years!! -
iTunes Is Here
Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. ITunes is now known and easily accessable part of music technology It organizes and plays digital music and videos. -
HOT HOT HOT
Syndey, Austrial swelters through its hottest New Years Day on record since 1939. The thermometre peaked at 45 degrees celsius, sparking bushfires and power outages. Homes and cars were destroyed, towns isolated and roads cut off as firestorms raged. -
All Roads Lead to Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zucotti Park in New York City. Its a people-powered movement that has spread to over 1,500 cities globally that demands social and economic equality. Main concerns being greed, corruptona nd the undue influence of corporations on goverments particulary from the financial sector.
