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#OnThisDay, 11 Jun 1987, Diane Abbott is elected to the British Parliament. She is the first Black woman to become an MP.

Abbott has held shadow cabinet posts in the Labour party, and is the longest serving Black MP. She currently holds the title "Mother of the House", given to the female MP with the longest uninterrupted service in the House of Commons.

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

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Trump’s second term is being documented without writing down the words..

The White House has pulled official transcripts, leaving future historians (and the public) in the dark.
https://theconversation.com/from-washingtons-burned-letters-to-trumps-missing-transcripts-partial-presidential-records-limit-peoples-full-understanding-of-history-258275

#USPolitics #Trump @histodons #Histodons

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#OnThisDay, 14 Jun 1939, Ethel Waters stars in The Ethel Waters Show on NBC, becoming the first black person to have their own show on US TV.

Photo is from her radio show.

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

Ethel Waters standing next to an NBR radio mic. She is a black woman with her hair tied back.

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"The air is the only place free of prejudices."

#OnThisDay, 15 Jun 1921, Bessie Coleman gained her pilot's license, becoming the first civilian African-American pilot in the world. And the first of Native American descent.

Read more about her in our NEW blogpost! https://carvehername.org.uk/bessie-coleman-and-other-early-american-aviators/

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #AviationHistory #Histodons

A young black woman standing on the wheel of an early propeller plane. She's wearing a flying uniform of trousers, boots, a long leather coat and a leather helmet.

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#OnThisDay, 16 June 1963, Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space, orbiting Earth 48 times in Vostok 6.

She is currently a member of the Russian State Duma (lower house), and supporter of Putin.

#WomenInSpace #SpaceHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Valentina Tereshkova in her orange spacesuit. She is a white woman wearing a white helmet with CCCP on it.

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"You have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored."

#OnThisDay, 17 Jun 1873, Susan B Anthony is tried for illegally voting in the 1872 US Presidential election.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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Photo of Susan B Anthony. She is a white woman with white hair, dressed in high Victorian clothing.

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"The USA today is not the USA I fought and came close to dying for," says 100-year-old Frank Hartzell, who helped liberate the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen.

His experience offers a warning about the dangers of political extremism:
https://theconversation.com/american-liberators-of-nazi-camps-got-a-lifelong-vaccine-against-extremism-their-wartime-experiences-are-a-warning-for-today-248813

@histodons #Histodons #USPolitics

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#OnThisDay, 18 Jun 1983, Sally Ride is the first woman to be a US astronaut, on board the Challenger shuttle.

A new documentary, 'Sally' (2025, Cristina Costantini) explores her achievements and why she felt she had to hide her sexuality.

#WomenInSpace #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Photo of Sally Ride in the cockpit of Challenger whilst it's in space. She's a white woman with dark hair.

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May 26, 1637, the Puritans and their allies surround the Pequot Indian stronghold called Mystic Fort near what is now Stonington, Connecticut. They set it ablaze, then shoot those who flee the flames. By dawn, over 400 are dead—mostly women and children.

And yet, we still call Puritans the “peaceful” settlers.

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#blackmastodon #iran #photography #history #war #histodons

Image: The Puritans’ massacre of the Pequots. A 19th-century wood engraving. Source: The Granger Collection, NYC.

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#OnThisDay, 23 June 1972, US President Nixon signs into law Title IX, prohibiting sexual discrimination in federally funded education programs/activities.

The image is from 1979, as obviously women still had to fight to get the law followed.

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

A woman in football (soccer) kit, holding a placard reading 'women athletes play with balls, too'.

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#OnThisDay, 24 June 1916, Mary Pickford becomes the first Hollywood star to sign a million-dollar contract.

This is Pickford, who was a queen of PR as well as the screen.

At the time, standard studio contracts were for a year. She signed a *two-year* contract as both an actor *and* a producer. That bumped its value across the $1m barrier and got her the headlines.

#ReclaimTheFrame #HollywoodHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Mary Pickford in the 1910s. She is a white woman with blonde hair in ringlets. A small, probably grey, kitten is sitting on her shoulder.

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#OnThisDay, 26 Jun 1949, all Belgian women are able to vote in Parliamentary elections for the first time.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #EuropeanHistory #Histodons

A white woman posting her vote into the ballot box whilst holding a baby in a hat with HUGE pointy ears. The baby appears to be watching the ballot paper go in.

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#OnThisDay, 27 Jun 1833, Prudence Crandall stands trial for running a school to educate African-American girls in Canterbury, Connecticut. She spends the night in County Jail until bail is posted, and pursues her case as far as the Supreme Court.