These Scientists Say They’ve Identified the Oldest Known Star Chart in the World
A new preprint suggests that an ancient Chinese star catalog dates to 355 B.C.E. But other researchers aren’t convinced, arguing that the original coordinates are misaligned by one degree
By Sonja Anderson
Astronomy-History at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/891
The Mayan languages spreading across the US
"Immigrants from Mexico and Central America are taking their ancient languages to new territories."
Flag of Guatemala
#OnThisDay, 7 Jun 1968, 187 women working at the Ford car factory in Dagenham, UK, go on strike demanding recognition as skilled workers.
They are led by Rosie Boland and Lil O'Callaghan. After three weeks they win concessions as production had to be shut down. The strike was one of the triggers for the Equal Pay Act 1970 that made it illegal to pay women and men differently if they are doing the same job.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #MadeInDagenham #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 4 Jun 1919, the US Senate approved the 19th amendment, in theory granting all women the right to vote. It was ratified in August 1920.
But it took until 1965 to lift state level laws that denied many women their rights.
More here: https://www.neh.gov/article/winning-vote-divided-movement-brought-about-nineteenth-amendment
#History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 4 Jun 1972, civil rights activist Angela Davis is acquitted in a trial over her alleged involvement in the 1970 Marin County Civic Centre attack.
Davis had been prosecuted for three capital felonies, including conspiracy to murder, after guns she owned were used in the attack. The all-white jury cleared her of all charges.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 23 May 1430, Jeanne d'Arc, fighting in the rearguard, is pulled from her horse and captured by the Burgundians at the siege of Compiègne. She is then sold as a prisoner to the British, who put her on trial for heresy.
Learn more about Jeanne’s rise and fall here: https://carvehername.org.uk/joan-of-arc-7-may-1429/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #JoanOfArc #EuropeanHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 23 May 1988, four women storm the BBC news studio whilst the news is live on air, protesting the introduction of Section 28. Section 28 banned the “promotion of homosexuality” by local government in the UK, and was intended to stop LGBT+ campaigns for equal rights.
It was not repealed until 2003.
Watch footage from the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZdpNjJakiI&ab_channel=BBCStories
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #LGBTHistory #BritishHistory #Section28 #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 23 May 1944, Madeleine Lavigne parachutes back into occupied France as a wireless operator for the British Special Operations Executive. She'd previously worked for the resistance as a forger and courier.
Radio operators ran the greatest risk of detection, as their position could be triangulated when they were on air.
She died in Paris of an embolism.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory #Histodons
The story of this exodus—of men and women who had once been enslaved—is one of harrowing survival. The Black Loyalists fled to the British not out of fealty to a distant crown, but because the British offered what the American Republic did not: freedom. And now, in the winter of 1782, they waited. Waited to see whether freedom, once granted, could be taken back.
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Image: Black Loyalist Richard Pierpoint, artist, Malcolm Jones, Canadian War Museum.
#history #canada #Blackmastodon #politics
#OnThisDay, 5 Jun 1988, Aussie Kay Cottee sails back into Sydney, Australia. She is the first woman to complete a single-handed, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe without any assistance.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AustralianHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 23 May 1907, 19 women take their seats in the Finnish Parliament. They are the first women Parliamentarians in the world.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #EuropeanHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 23 May 1941 Giliana Balmaceda (Gillian Gerson) lands in occupied France. She is the first woman to be a Special Operations Executive agent in France, and scouts out escape lines and collects documents to be forged.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 5 Jun 1833, Ada Lovelace meets Charles Babbage, triggering their collaboration on the Analytical Engine and writing the first published program.
Image by Sydney Padua
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 24 May 1976, at least 400 women walk out on strike at the Trica factory in London, demanding equal pay with their male colleagues. Around 100 men come out on strike in support of the women.
The strike lasts 21 weeks before the American owners of the factory agree to all demands.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #TradeUnionHistory #Histodons
58 years ago:
“Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger."
For this refusal—for standing on faith in a country that demanded obedience—he was made an example. The response came swift: they stripped him of his title, suspended him from boxing, fined him $10,000, and, on June 20, 1967, sentenced him to five years in federal prison.
#History #Histodons #Politics
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Video: Muhammad Ali Refuses Army Induction, April 28, 1967.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Z2xrr2OuoYg?si=sgOcYyfS8d5ZJq1Q
Ancient Egyptian Drawing Now Theorized To Represent the Milky Way’s Great Rift
By Livia Pereira
Original paper:
https://www.sciengine.com/JAHH/doi/10.3724/SP.J.140-2807.2025.01.06
Astronomy-History at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/891
📖 **Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages**
“_In Peak Human, acclaimed historian Johan Norberg examines seven of humanity’s greatest civilizations – ancient Athens, the Roman Republic, Abbasid Baghdad, Song China, Renaissance Italy, the Dutch Republic and the Anglosphere – and asks: how do we ensure that our current golden age doesn’t end?_”
🔗 https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/peak-human/.
#Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #History #Histodons @bookstodon @histodons
On May 1, 1865, in the 1st spring of freedom, Black Charlestonians held a procession to honor Union soldiers buried in a mass grave.
They came with roses. With hymns. With children.
It was the 1st Memorial Day.
But America gave the credit to others & buried the memory.
#MemorialDay #History #Histodons #Politics #photography #blackandwhite
#blackmastodon
#blackandwhitephotography
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Image: Black American Civil War Memorial, Spirit of Freedom statue by Ed Hamilton 1997, NPS Photo Washington DC.
“The simple act of walking through a schoolhouse door that had been barred to me, and all people of my color, by the governor of this state - that simple act represented an end to legal segregation in the American South.”
#OnThisDay, 11 June 1963, Vivian Malone defies the Governor of Alabama to become the first Black female student at the University of Alabama.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
What Is the Origin of the Calendar?
The modern calendar borrows influences from a collective of early calendars such as the Jewish, the Babylonian, the Roman, and the Egyptian calendars.
by Mike Cohen
https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-the-origin-of-the-calendar/
Books on calendars at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2284
Maya calendar:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/12329
How Thomas Nast’s Cartoons Transformed American Life And Culture
By Kaleena Fraga
https://allthatsinteresting.com/thomas-nast-cartoons#34
The Man With the Carpet Bag
The Wrong Side and The Right Side (of History) - Albert Camus On Being 'Human and Simple'
By Paul Sorene
More information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus
Behind the Scenes Tour at the Mitchell Library
14 June, Mitchell Library, Glasgow. Free, ticketed
An exclusive guided tour of the Mitchell Library – one of Europe’s largest public libraries. Dawn Vallance, Principal Librarian at the Mitchell Library, will lead a tour of the vast back stacks of the Mitchell, not usually accessible to the public.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/behind-the-scenes-tour-at-the-mitchell-library-tickets-1374282378589
#Scottish #literature #libraries #architecture #history #Glasgow #MitchellLibrary
In the bone-deep chill of 1792, they gathered on the edge of the Atlantic—over 1000 Black Loyalists, weary of the lies carved into the soil of Nova Scotia. 10 years they waited for land that never came. Now they would leave. Not in retreat, but defiance. Toward Sierra Leone, and the freedom they would build themselves. A home worthy of their struggle. #history #photography
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Image: Founder of Sierra Leone, Thomas Peter's statue in Freetown Sierra Leone. Source: https://flic.kr/p/2amHbqo
Ronnie Dugger, founding editor and longtime publisher of the Texas Observer and for many years the crusading conscience of the progressive movement in Texas and beyond, died of complications of dementia at a hospice center in Austin on May 27. He was 95. https://www.texasobserver.org/ronnie-dugger-1930-2025/
#politics #USpol #journalism #RIP #Texas #media #history #news
