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#OnThisDay, 10 Aug 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn in as an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Ruth Bader Ginsberg being sworn in, with Bill Clinton behind her. She is short, and had yet to develop her signature giant collar style.

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#OnThisDay, 7 Aug 1948, American high jumper Alice Coachman wins Olympic gold, the first Black woman to win gold.

Later in life, she established the Alice Coachman Track and Field Foundation to help support younger athletes and provide assistance to retired Olympic veterans.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #OlympicWomen #Histodons

Alice Coachman on the top podium at the London Olympics. She is a black woman with her hair pulled back.

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#OnThisDay, 9 Aug 1956, more than 20,000 women of all races march through Pretoria, South Africa, to petition against the law forcing women to carry passes in order to move about.

Since 1994, a public holiday on 9 Aug marks National Women's Day in South Africa.

Read more about the women who led the movement here: https://issuu.com/topcomedia/docs/public_sector_leaders_august_2021/s/13071366

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AfricanHistory #Histodons

Four women of the five women who led the march, carrying armfuls of the petition. Left to right, they are: Rahima Moosa, a South Asian woman; Lilian Ngoyi, a black woman; Helen Joseph, a white woman; and Sophie Williams, a black woman.

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#OnThisDay, 11 Aug 1942 Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil receive a patent for their radio guidance system – the tech that now underpins wifi.

Learn more about Hedy's remarkable life here: https://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/youmustrememberthispodcastblog/2015/1/14/star-wars-episode-iii-hedy-lamarr-ymrt-29

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #HollywoodHistory #Histodons

Publicity photo of Hedy Lamarr. She is a white woman with darkish hair, playing cards and theatrically winking to camera as she shows the audience her hand.

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The patent showing H K Markey et al's secret communication system. Hedy Kiesler Markey was Hedy Lamarr's non-stage name at the time.

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#OnThisDay, 18 Aug 1920, women in the US gain the right to vote when the 19th amendment is ratified by Tennessee, the 36th state to ratify it.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Alice Paul standing on a balcony with a flag showing a star for each state that has ratified the amendment. A group of women stand below it. Everyone is white.

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#OnThisDay, 24 Aug 1896, an unknown woman cyclist has a beer at the bar in New Jersey - making headlines in the New York Times.

Chapeau!

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Cycling #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Newsclipping. Headline: She drank her ale at the bar. Subheading: Girl Cyclist in Rahway Amazed Loungers in Chamberlain's. Story then tells how the woman ordered and drank a beer straight from the bottle whilst standing at the bar, to the amazement of the men in there.

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The #Holocaust decimated not only Yiddish cultures of Eastern Europe, but also Ladino cultures of the eastern Mediterranean, which had flourished for centuries.

The 1,700 Jews of Rhodes were deported to Auschwitz 80 years ago, when Allied victory was almost in sight.

Their fate reflects how genocide remained a Nazi priority to the bitter end.
https://theconversation.com/remembering-the-longest-journey-to-auschwitz-the-deportation-of-rhodes-jews-decimated-a-small-but-vibrant-community-with-centuries-of-mediterranean-history-235390
#Histodons @histodons #Jewish

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#OnThisDay, 25 Aug 1932, Amelia Earhart successfully lands in Newark, New Jersey, to become the first woman to fly solo across the USA.

Earhart records a series of first flights by a woman, before disappearing during an attempt to fly around the world in 1937.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WomenPilots #Histodons

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Few Americans know what happened 75 years ago today in the small town of Peekskill, NY. The KKK and anti-communists teamed up to try to silence a folk concert fundraiser for the Civil Rights movement.

It marked a significant turning point in the post-World War II era, raised the stakes in the coming anti-communist Red Scare, and showed how the destructive power of hatred can gain legitimacy in a time of political turmoil.

https://theconversation.com/Peekskill-236094

#Histodons @histodons #politics #music

Fighting rages in Peekskill, N.Y., on Aug. 27,1949, as veterans break up a scheduled concert by singer Paul Robeson. AP Photo

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#OnThisDay, 24 Oct 1901, American Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first *person* to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

The cat did *not* do the stunt with her.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Annie Edson Taylor being helped ashore along a plank, having survived the falls. She is a white woman in a blouse and skirts.

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Annie Edson Taylor standing with the barrel "Queen of the Mist". She is a white woman in large skirts, and is only a few inches taller than the barrel. A small white cat is sitting on top of the barrel.

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The last link is up on my website too, plus some other tape weirdities from way back. https://robertafidora.com/news/blog/7100253/rewinding-cassettes-a-tape-miscellany #Cassette #Cassettes #Tape #Tapes #Retro #Music #Histodons #MusicHistory #Musodon

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The 1619 Project was not a legal claim. It did not declare that the nation was born in bondage. What it said—plainly—was that America’s founding ideals were inseparable from its founding crimes. Black Americans were not passengers. They were agents. Not beneficiaries—Builders.

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#history #blackmastodon #histodons #blackandwhite #photography #photo

Image: The book by Nikole Hannah-Jones at a bookstore on November 17, 2021 in New York City (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images).

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#OnThisDay, 11 Oct 1922, Alaska P Davidson becomes the first woman to be an FBI Special Agent. She was employed to focus on the trafficking of women across state lines.

J Edgar Hoover requests her resignation, along with her colleagues Jessie Duckstein and Lenore Houston, in 1924. The FBI does not appoint another woman as a Special Agent until 1972.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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photo of Alaska P Davidson. She is a white woman with dark hair in a bun.

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#OnThisDay, 20 Oct 1933, women picket the London Motor Show, calling for a boycott of Austin cars. The manufacturer’s owner had called for married women to be sacked so men could have their jobs.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

Six women outside the Olympia exhibition hall in London, carrying placards calling for a boycott of Austin.

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#OnThisDay, 19 Oct 1944, President Roosevelt announces Black women can join WAVES – the US Navy's women's service.

Lt Harriet Pickens and Ensign Frances Wills, pictured, become the first Black women officers a couple of months later.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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Lt Pickens receiving a salute from Ensign Wills

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“Had she been a man she would have become Prime Minister.“

#OnThisDay, 21 Oct 1958, Stella Isaacs (Baroness Swanborough) becomes the first woman to take a seat in the UK House of Lords.

She campaigned tirelessly for the rights of refugee children.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #histodons

Stella Isaacs in the uniform of the WVS she helped found. She is a white woman with light or silver hair and she's looking thrilled about something.

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Love is like an itchin' in my heart...

#OnThisDay, 22 Oct 1966, The Supremes become the first all-woman group to get to no 1 in the US Billboard album charts with The Supremes A' Go-Go.

Listen to their version of Get Ready: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD_7_MhgHhc

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory #PopHistory #Histodons

Cover of the album, showing the members of the Supremes dancing

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#OnThisDay, 27 Oct 1967, the Abortion Act gains royal assent. It allows women in the UK – except for Northern Ireland - to legally have an abortion on a range of medical grounds but stops short of making abortion legal.

It came into effect in April 1968 everywhere except Northern Ireland: NI passed their own act in 2020.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

Six women holding up signs that together read "no return to back street abortion"

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What if we told you the first ghost photos were an accident?

In the mid-1800s, early cameras took 30 seconds to take a picture – so anyone who wandered in the frame of a picture showed up as a transparent spooky figure. And of course, Victorian photographers took the chance to have fun and be creative:
https://theconversation.com/victorian-ghost-photographs-amused-viewers-with-spooky-thrills-240776
#history #photography @histodons #Histodons

‘The Haunted Lane,’ a stereoscope card from L.M. Melander & Bro., 1875. Two men appear terrified of a ghostly apparition.

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#OnThisDay, 28 Oct 1908, Muriel Matters, Violet Tillard and Helen Fox unfurl a banner and then chain themselves to the grille in the Ladies Gallery in the House of Commons, London, demanding votes for women.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons
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Dramatic newspaper illustration of Muriel Matters being taken away along with the trellis she had chained herself to. She is white, as are all the dudes in tailcoats trying to tell her off.

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Carving turnips.
Wearing costumes to ward off spirits.
Carrying pocketfuls of treats.

Sound familiar?

It’s the prehistory to a certain upcoming holiday 🎃🦇
https://theconversation.com/how-was-halloween-invented-once-a-celtic-pagan-tradition-the-holiday-has-evolved-to-let-kids-and-adults-try-on-new-identities-192379
#Histodons @histodons #Halloween

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#OnThisDay, 5 July 1957, Althea Gibson becomes the first Black person to win a #Wimbledon Singles tennis trophy.

Blogpost by Moira from 2019:
https://illustratedwomeninhistory.com/althea-gibson/

Newsreel: https://youtu.be/2EJCqBsh2Dk?t=1m15s

Listen to her being interviewed here (dead bird link)
https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1412427791396659204

#BlackHistory #TennisHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Althea Gibson holding the rosewater bowl and a bouquet of flowers. She's looking thrilled.

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Pendant un mois, l'IHA accueille dans sa cour intérieure une installation lumineuse intitulée "L’avenir du passé" & concue par les artistes Francine Eggs, Andreas Bitschin, Beat Frank & Matthias Pabsch.

Dialoguent l'architecture et les habitants du XVIIe siècle, la nature et les perspectives.

En livestream sur YouTube | Vernissage: 25.11. 17h

👉https://www.dhi-paris.fr/fr/informations-detaillees/seminare/SeminarTime/detail/online-lavenir-du-passe4221.html

#Sévigné #Marais #Histodons @histodons

L’avenir du passé. Installations lumineuses dans la cour intérieure de l’IHA

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1953 for conspiring with the Soviets. A newly declassified memo debunks the government’s case against Ethel, and her sons want their mother exonerated. A historian explains what changed mind: https://theconversation.com/i-am-a-scholar-of-the-rosenberg-case-i-didnt-always-think-ethel-was-innocent-but-i-now-believe-she-was-not-a-spy-240642
(Lori Clune, Fresno State) @histodons #Histodons #history #coldwar #exoneration

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#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.

Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons

Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the 1960s, in front of a radio telescope. she is a white woman with dark hair, wearing a sensible duffle coat given how cold it must have been out there.

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the 2010s. She is a white woman with dark grey hair.

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