Audrey Hepburn becomes a UNICEF ambassador
1988 · Event
Remembering the aid that saved her in the Dutch hunger winter, Hepburn spends her last years visiting famine and war zones from Ethiopia to Somalia for UNICEF.
On these timelines: Women in history, Master, Sub-Saharan Africa
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- Second-wave feminism (1963)
- US women win the vote (19th Amendment) (1920)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
- Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
- Indira Gandhi's second premiership (1980)
- Indira Gandhi's first premiership (1966)
- Woolf's A Room of One's Own (1929)
- Indira Gandhi (1917)
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- Gulf War (1990)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
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