0585 Sardis, Turkey. A solar eclipse occurred in the midst of battle between Medes and Lydians. Both armies took it as an apocalyptic sign and fled. Thales recorded the date and it is used as a reference point for dating other events.
1851 Akron, OH, Politics. The Ohio Women’s Rights Convention met, calling for human equality, including the suffrage. A great deal of evidence about women’s work both in the home, cottage industries, and workplaces was presented to show the importance of women.
1892 San Francisco, Ecology. John Muir with others formed the Sierra Club for the conservation of nature.
1937 Wolfsburg, Germany. The Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens was founded to manufacture the People’s Car. The model was show in 1939 just before the war. Few were made before the factory was turned to weapons.
1961 London, Politics. The Observer newspaper published the first of series of articles about forgotten Prisoners calling for an amnesty campaign, this one focussed on Portugal. The creation of Amnesty International came soon thereafter.
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