| Date | Type | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 1928-05-07 |
On this day in 1928, women in the United Kingdom were finally given the right to vote at the age of 21 (the same as men). The battle for women to vote in the UK had continued since the end of the 19th century with the Suffragette movement. They suffered severe hardship in their struggle with the forced feeding of hunger strikers and acts of immense bravery. On the 4th of June 1913, suffragette Emily Davison ran in front of King George V’s horse at the Epsom Derby and was instantly killed. Her protest was, at the time, dismissed as the act of a person with mental illness rather than the act of a desperate protester seeking equality. Many of the campaigners didn’t survive to witness the day when the “Equal Franchise Act” was signed giving women the same voting rights as men and allowing them to vote at the age of 21. | |
| 1928-07-07 | In 1928 Sliced Bread first went on sale.
Otto Frederick Rohwedder was an American inventor who made the first loaf slicing machine in 1928 with production and sale of the first pre-sliced loaf going on sale on his 48th birthday, the 7th of July 1928 in Missouri, United States. The advertisement for the sliced loaf at the Chillicothe Baking Company was "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped". This led to the saying “the best thing since sliced bread”. |
