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Women in Switzerland won the right to vote in 1971.

Under Chairman Mao, every Chinese family was obliged to kill a sparrow a week to stop them eating all the rice. The project was ineffective because sparrows don’t eat rice.

A 180-year-old English legal case is often cited as the forerunner of "no means no" and a woman's right to defend herself by force against sexual assault.

Before 1902, it was illegal for Australians to swim at the beach during the day.

The first fatal car accident in the UK was caused by a driver going at 4 mph (6.5 kph).

On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan’s surrender to the United States.

In the mid-17th century, a wave of religious reform transformed the way in which Christmas was celebrated in England.