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Offering violence and experiencing violence from police and bystanders, members began to leave the WSPU and by 1914 it was said to have only 5,000 members, compared to the peaceful NUWSS, which reported 50,000.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

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Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847–1929) -Cheffe de file de la "Non-Violent" (NUWSS)des suffragistes anglaises

Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847–1929) « Je ne peux pas dire que je suis devenue suffragette », écrira-t-elle plus tard. « Je l’ai toujours été, depuis que j’ai eu l’âge de penser aux principes du gouvernement représentatif » Millicent Fawcett est une suffragiste et une militante majeure pour l’égalité des droits pour les femmes. De 1890 à 1919, elle est à la tête de la plus grande organisation…

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Eunice Guthrie Murray was born on 21st January 1878 in Cardross.

Eunice Murray was the daughter of a well-known Glasgow lawyer, Dr David Murray and Frances Porter Murray, Murray was one of the founders of the Glasgow Ladies Higher Education Society in 1876, both her parents were both supporters of the women's movement, her mother, Frances was born in New York, and raised in Scotland, was a suffragette. Frances’s parents both of whom were active abolitionists, emigrated to Glasgow in 1844.

Murray attended the progressive St Leonard School in St Andrews, where she became involved in philanthropic activities. She was active in the local branch of the League of Pity, volunteered regularly at a local settlement, and was an advocate for temperance. On 9th November 1896 she recorded reading about the formation of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, commenting

‘I should like to join such a society for the question of the emancipation of my sex is a stirring one and leads to vital matters’.

Given her background it is hardly surprising that along with her mother and her sister, Sylvia Murray, she joined the Women’s Freedom League. The WFL had a strong presence in Scotland, and from 1909 onwards Murray was the secretary for ‘scattered members’—all those who did not live in Edinburgh, Glasgow, or Dundee. Eunice was one of the three Scottish members on the WFL’s national executive committee and in 1913 was described as president for Scotland of the WFL.

The Women’s Freedom League was a non-violent militant group most famous for first chaining themselves to railings and leading the 1911 Census boycott. Inspired after attended the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance in Budapest in 1913, Eunice Murray was arrested for obstruction when she tried to address a meeting near 10 Downing Street on women’s suffrage.

Unlike the Pankhursts’ Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), the WFL continued to campaign for the women’s suffrage throughout the First World War. Murray was an active feminist who had published numerous leaflets on women and their position in society such as The Illogical Woman. Like many feminists, Murray argued for the vote based on the unique roles of men and women. She observed, ‘We have always held, and hold now, that it is because men and women are so different, and not because they are so alike, that we require the vote.

In 1918, women in Britain finally won their right to vote and stand in general elections, if they were over 30 and met minimum property qualifications, and Eunice was quick to take advantage of this major breakthrough and stood as a candidate in Glasgow, Bridgeton in the 1918 election, the only Scottish woman in the first election open to women in 1918, she was unsuccessful, coming third. The results being Coalition Liberal Alexander MacCallum Scott 10,887, Labour James Maxton 7,860 and Independent Eunice Murray 991.

The election was held in the midst of the Spanish Flu epidemic with 327 deaths in the Glasgow that week, compared to 386 the previous week. Schools and docks were closed when half a million Glaswegians took to the polls, of which just over one-third were newly enfranchised women. In response to a claim that all women candidates were pacifists she wrote to the Spectator on 23rd November 1918, ‘I believe that the war we have just fought and won was a righteous one, and that it was the duty of newly enfranchised women to support the country’.

The election saw the defeat of the Asquith Liberals and the landslide of the Coalition Liberals. Murray was not deterred by her defeat and went to on to have an active political life. Elected as councillor in 1923 to Dunbartonshire Council, Murray was also the founder and President of the Scottish Women’s Rural Institute in the area.

Eunice Murray died on 26th March 1960 having led an active and inspirational life and today we remember her as the first women to break the barrier in Scotland to stand as an MP.

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'Carnation, Lily, Rose' - suffrage banner honouring Mary Moser, 1908 This banner was used in Jun 1908 National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) Procession Mary Moser and Angelica Kaufmann were among the founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA). It may come as a surprise that when the Royal Academy was founded in 1768, there were two women among the 34 original Members – fairly progressive by eighteenth-century standards. Angelica Kauffmann (1741–1807) and Mary Moser (1744–1819) were both painters, Moser specialising in portrait and floral paintings and Kauffmann focusing on historical and allegorical subjects. And after Mary's death in 1819, it was over a century before a female Academician was elected.

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Annie Swynnerton

Until 24th September 2023, Tate Britain is devoting one room to the works of Annie Swynnerton (1844-1933), a trailblazing painter and campaigner for women’s rights. Best known for her portraits and symbolist paintings, Swynnerton developed a distinct style and became the first female member of the Royal Academy since its founding in 1768. Annie Louisa née Robinson was born in Manchester on 26th…

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Events 2.9 (before 1950)

474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland. 1098 – A First Crusade army led by Bohemond of Taranto wins a major battle against the Seljuq emir Ridwan of Aleppo during the siege of Antioch. 1539 – The first recorded race is held on Chester Racecourse, known as the Roodee. 1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake. 1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation. 1654 – The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War. 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion. 1778 – Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. 1822 – Haiti attacks the newly established Dominican Republic on the other side of the island of Hispaniola. 1825 – After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as sixth President of the United States in a contingent election. 1849 – The new Roman Republic is declared. 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Alabama 1870 – US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau. 1889 – US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency. 1893 – Verdi's last opera, Falstaff premieres at La Scala, Milan. 1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball. 1900 – The Davis Cup competition is established. 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes. 1907 – The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). 1913 – A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of the Americas, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth. 1920 – Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized. 1922 – Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. 1929 – Members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng assassinate the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities. 1932 – Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law. 1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed between Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Turkey. 1941 – World War II: Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate. 1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources. 1943 – World War II: Pacific War: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal. 1945 – World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat. 1945 – World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.

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Donne del 900: chi furono le suffragette

Le donne del 900 hanno duramente lottato per conquistare diritti fondamentali. Grazie alle loro battaglie, per esempio, le donne di oggi possono esprimere il loro voto. Pur essendo il movimento britannico per il suffragio femminile il più noto, il movimento per il voto alle donne nacque in diverse parti del mondo, segno che i tempi erano ormai maturi. Le suffragette britanniche, furono chiamate così le attiviste per il voto alle donne, furono da ispirazione per le donne di tutto il mondo. Dove nacque il movimento per il voto alle donne? Il movimento per il voto alle donne ebbe origine in varie parti del mondo nel corso del XIX e del XX secolo. Le prime organizzazioni e attivisti che si battevano per il diritto di voto delle donne emersero in diverse nazioni contemporaneamente, spesso indipendentemente gli uni dagli altri. Le suffragette britanniche, in particolare, furono estremamente influenti nel promuovere il movimento per il voto delle donne nel Regno Unito e nel fornire un modello di attivismo per altri paesi. Nel Regno Unito, il movimento per il voto delle donne guadagnò slancio nel tardo XIX secolo e all'inizio del XX secolo. Organizzazioni come la National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), fondata nel 1897 da Millicent Fawcett, promossero il suffragio femminile attraverso metodi pacifici come petizioni, discorsi pubblici e lobbismo. Tuttavia, fu il movimento più radicale delle suffragette che attirò maggiormente l'attenzione. La Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), fondata da Emmeline Pankhurst nel 1903, adottò tattiche più aggressive e militanti per ottenere il diritto al voto delle donne. Le suffragette britanniche fecero notizia con le loro azioni di protesta, come scioperi della fame, manifestazioni, vandalismo e incendi dolosi. Al di fuori del Regno Unito, movimenti per il suffragio femminile emersero in molti altri paesi. Ad esempio, negli Stati Uniti, Nuova Zelanda, Canada, Australia e diversi Paesi europei. Chi erano le suffragette? Le suffragette erano membri di un movimento politico e sociale che lottava per il diritto al voto delle donne. Il termine "suffragette" è spesso associato alle donne che fecero parte del movimento britannico per il suffragio femminile all'inizio del XX secolo. Il movimento era guidato principalmente dalla Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Queste donne adottarono tattiche di disobbedienza civile e azioni di protesta per attirare l'attenzione sulle loro richieste di voto: dagli scioperi della fame alle manifestazioni pubbliche, atti di vandalismo, incendi dolosi. Le suffragette britanniche sono state fondamentali per ispirare movimenti per il suffragio femminile in altre parti del mondo, contribuendo a promuovere il riconoscimento dei diritti politici delle donne a livello globale. Donne del 900: quando hanno votato per la prima volta? La prima volta che le donne hanno votato varia da Paese a Paese. Ecco alcune date significative: - 1893 Nuova Zelanda: fu il primo paese al mondo a concedere alle donne il diritto di voto su base nazionale. - 1902 Australia: a seguire l'Australia dove, però, ci furono alcune differenze tra i diversi stati. - 1906 Finlandia: fu il primo paese europeo a concedere alle donne il diritto di voto su base nazionale. - 1913 Norvegia: anche le donne norvegesi ottennero il diritto di voto. - 1918 Regno Unito: il Representation of the People Act del 1918 concesse il diritto di voto alle donne sopra i 30 anni che soddisfacevano determinati requisiti di proprietà. Successivamente, nel 1928, il Atto di Rappresentanza del Popolo (Equal Franchise) estese il diritto di voto a tutte le donne di età superiore ai 21 anni. - 1920 Stati Uniti: l'approccio al diritto di voto delle donne fu graduale. Il 26º emendamento della Costituzione degli Stati Uniti, ratificato nel 1920, garantì il diritto di voto alle donne a livello federale. - 1945 Italia: un decreto legislativo luogotenenziale sancì il diritto di voto alle donne dai 21 anni. In copertina foto di WOKANDAPIX da Pixabay Read the full article

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The suffragettes:

From the middle of the nineteenth century, women across the country launched a relentless battle for the right to vote. The London National Society for Women's Suffrage (LNSWS) and the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage (MNSWS), both founded in 1867, launched early campaigns. Early campaigning actions included the distribution of pamphlets and petitioning, with the MNSWS holding its first public meeting on 14 April 1868 at the Manchester Free Trade Hall. Resolutions offered by Lydia Beckett, Agnes Pochin, and Anne Robertson were considered by some to represent the start of the suffrage struggle. It was a momentous occasion since it was uncommon for women to speak publicly at the time. Women in rural regions became more active in the fight for suffrage in the late nineteenth century. The MNSWS expanded their operations beyond the municipal limits, and by 1877, they were organising public meetings across the north of England. In 1887, the association relocated to 5 John Dalton Street, where they coordinated several efforts, including ones aimed at gaining support among working women. The MNSWS joined other women's suffrage clubs in London and around the country to create the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) in 1897, recognising the growing need to present a unified front. WSPU members participated in spectacular scenes of shattering windows, burning vacant buildings, and hunger strikes, in addition to conducting marches and pageants in their distinctive colours of white, green, and purple. As a result of their militant efforts, around 1000 suffragettes were committed to jails such as Holloway Prison in London between 1905 and 1914. The start of the First World War immediately ended the suffrage effort.

However, the start of the First World War immediately ended the suffrage effort. When the war ended, it was recognised that many returning troops did not have the right to vote. As a result, the Representation of the People Act 1918 was enacted, granting suffrage to males over the age of 21 and some women over the age of 30. The Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act of 1928, which provided voting rights to all women over the age of 21, was the first time that women had attained electoral equality with men.

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Emily Davison gave her life in front of the King’s horse in my hometown for me to have my voice heard. As a woman it’s important to me to exercise my right to vote at every opportunity. I’ve voted in the European elections. Have you? #suffrage #suffragettes #votesforwomen #nuwss #epsom #emilydavison #europeanelections #vote https://www.instagram.com/p/BxzWxJHnN8W/?igshid=15faokft5427z

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my little pin corner !

a moon, from ems, because she misses me the most at night time when we’re not together and because I’m the moon to her sun

a badge from the BEST brunch place I’ve been to, the breakfast club in brighton

a votes for women pin - doesn’t really need explaining

and my favourite, a cat reading to kill a mockingbird - my favourite animal and my favourite book !

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I'm using my mirror light as a lamp for my studying

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Eunice Guthrie Murray was born on 21st January 1878 in Cardross.

Eunice Murray was the daughter of a well-known Glasgow lawyer, Dr David Murray and Frances Porter Murray, Murray was one of the founders of the Glasgow Ladies Higher Education Society in 1876,  both her parents were both supporters of the women’s movement, her mother, Frances was born in New York, and raised in Scotland, was a suffragette. Frances’s parents  both of whom were active abolitionists, emigrated to Glasgow in 1844.

Murray attended the progressive St Leonard School in St Andrews, where she became involved in philanthropic activities. She was active in the local branch of the League of Pity, volunteered regularly at a local settlement, and was an advocate for temperance. On 9th November 1896 she recorded reading about the formation of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, commenting

‘I should like to join such a society for the question of the emancipation of my sex is a stirring one and leads to vital matters’.

Given her background it is hardly surprising that along with her mother and her sister, Sylvia Murray, she joined the Women’s Freedom League. The WFL had a strong presence in Scotland, and from 1909 onwards Murray was the secretary for ‘scattered members’—all those who did not live in Edinburgh, Glasgow, or Dundee. Eunice was one of the three Scottish members on the WFL’s national executive committee and in 1913 was described as president for Scotland of the WFL.

The Women’s Freedom League was a non-violent militant group most famous for first chaining themselves to railings and leading the 1911 Census boycott. Inspired after attended the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance in Budapest in 1913, Eunice Murray was arrested for obstruction when she tried to address a meeting near 10 Downing Street on women’s suffrage.

Unlike the Pankhursts’ Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), the WFL continued to campaign for the women’s suffrage throughout the First World War. Murray was an active feminist who had published numerous leaflets on women and their position in society  such as The Illogical Woman. Like many feminists, Murray argued for the vote based on the unique roles of men and women. She observed, ‘We have always held, and hold now, that it is because men and women are so different, and not because they are so alike, that we require the vote.

In 1918, women in Britain finally won their right to vote and stand in general elections, if they were over 30 and met minimum property qualifications, and Eunice was quick to take advantage of this major breakthrough and stood as a candidate in Glasgow, Bridgeton in the 1918 election,  the only Scottish woman in the first election open to women in 1918,  she was unsuccessful, coming third. The results being Coalition Liberal Alexander MacCallum Scott 10,887, Labour James Maxton 7,860 and Independent Eunice Murray 991.

The election was held in the midst of the Spanish Flu epidemic with 327 deaths in the Glasgow that week, compared to 386 the previous week. Schools and docks were closed when half a million Glaswegians took to the polls, of which just over one-third were newly enfranchised women.  In response to a claim that all women candidates were pacifists she wrote to the Spectator on 23rd November 1918, ‘I believe that the war we have just fought and won was a righteous one, and that it was the duty of newly enfranchised women to support the country’.

The election saw the defeat of the Asquith Liberals and the landslide of the Coalition Liberals. Murray was not deterred by her defeat and went to on to have an active political life. Elected as councillor in 1923 to Dunbartonshire Council, Murray was also the founder and President of the Scottish Women’s Rural Institute in the area. 

Eunice Murray died on 26th March 1960 having led an active and inspirational life and today we remember her as the first women to break the barrier in Scotland to stand as an MP.

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On This Day In History

January 9th, 1907: The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon, is a well-known name in the history of women’s rights. Lesser renowned but still important is her daughter, Louisa Garrett Anderson, who followed Elizabeth into the medical profession and Suffrage campaigns. Whilst her aunt, Millicent Fawcett (1847-1929), belonged to the Suffragist movement, Louisa joined the more militant Suffragettes.

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Events 2.9

474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland. 1098 – The army of the First Crusade under the leadership of Bohemond of Taranto wins a battle against Seljuq emir Ridwan of Aleppo during the siege of Antioch. 1539 – The first recorded race is held on Chester Racecourse, known as the Roodee. 1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake. 1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation. 1654 – The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War. 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion. 1778 – Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. 1788 – The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp. 1822 – Haiti attacks the newly established Dominican Republic on the other side of the island of Hispaniola. 1825 – After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as sixth President of the United States in a contingent election. 1849 – The new Roman Republic is declared. 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Alabama 1870 – US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau. 1889 – US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency. 1893 – Verdi's last opera, Falstaff premieres at La Scala, Milan. 1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball. 1900 – The Davis Cup competition is established. 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes. 1907 – The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). 1913 – A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of the Americas, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth. 1920 – Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized. 1922 – Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. 1929 – Members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng assassinate the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities. 1932 – Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law. 1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed between Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Turkey. 1941 – World War II: Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate. 1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources. 1943 – World War II: Pacific War: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal. 1945 – World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat. 1945 – World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway. 1950 – Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists. 1951 – Korean War: The two-day Geochang massacre begins as a battalion of the 11th Division of the South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, in the South Gyeongsang district of South Korea. 1959 – The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR. 1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a record-setting audience of 73 million viewers across the United States. 1965 – Vietnam War: The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission. 1971 – The 6.5–6.7 Mw  Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000. 1971 – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame. 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing. 1975 – The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth. 1976 – Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24. 1978 – The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1982 – Japan Air Lines Flight 350 crashes near Haneda Airport in an attempted pilot mass murder-suicide, killing 24 of the 174 people on board. 1986 – Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System. 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet Union. 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people. 1996 – Copernicium is discovered, by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al. 2001 – The Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision takes place, killing nine of the thirty-five people on board the Japanese fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru, leaving the USS Greeneville (SSN-772) with US $2 million in repairs, at Pearl Harbor. 2016 – Two passenger trains collide in the German town of Bad Aibling in the state of Bavaria. Twelve people die and 85 others are injured. 2018 – Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea. 2020 – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has the army soldiers enter the Legislative Assembly to assist in pushing for the approval for a better government security plan, causing a brief political crisis. 2021 – Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump began.[26]