On this day in 1912, Massachusetts became the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
On this day in 1919, the U.S. Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed suffrage to women, and sent it to the U.S. states for ratification.
On this day in 1959, Charles de Gaulle stunned French colonists in Algeria by telling them they must integrate with the Muslim Algerians if they wished to stay.