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Tuesday, 19 September 2017

On this day: 19 September

ON THIS DAY- On this day in 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections. New Zealand’s women’s suffrage preceded the US’ and the UK’s, and the achievement was the result of years of effort by suffrage campaigners, led by Kate Sheppard. In 1957, the first entirely contained underground nuclear explosion producing no fallout took place in Nevada when the Plumbbob Rainier was detonated at 899 ft underground. Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300 year-old glacier mummy from the Copper Age, was discovered in the Alps on this day in 1991. This time last year, Enterprise readers we reading about Egypt’s reversal of the zero-tolerance policy for ergot and Bloomberg’s note on how Egyptians were using EFG Hermes’ GDRs to get USD.

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