1997
Hereditary Peers no longer have right to sit in House of Lords
1992
Church of England votes to allow female priests
1933
Death of ‘Typhoid Mary’ (Mary Mallon), American cook, carrier of typhoid disease, known to have infected 47 people.
1933
A severe dust storm stripped the topsoil from farmlands in South Dakota, creating a dust bowl. This exacerbated the Great Depression.
1933
Irving Berlin’s ‘God Bless America’ was first performed .
1918
World War I officially ended at 11.00 am, when Germany signed an armistice with the Allies in a railway carriage near Compiègne, France.
1887
Work starts on the Manchester Ship Canal
