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Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Wednesday, May 10, 1922. First call to the bar for English women.


Ivy Williams was called to the bar, making her the first English woman "barred" and thereby able to practice law.

Perhaps ironically, she did not, going on instead to be a professor of law, being the first English woman to achieve that status as well.  She never married, and died at age 88 in 1966.

Germany was ordered to pay 9 million marks in compensation to the Allied powers for zeppelins it had destroyed rather than surrender to the Allies pursuant to the Versailles Treaty.

The United States annexed Kingman Reef in the Pacific.  Not much is there.


Elihu Root gave a speech at the Russell Sage Foundation in which he outlined his vision of managed growth for New York City to the year 2022.