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Mind the gap!

#OnThisDay, 6 June 1915, Maida Vale Tube station opens in London. It is staffed by women until the end of World War 1.

#LondonHistory #TubeHistory #GoingUnderground #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

A woman inspecting a passenger's ticket at a Tube station in what looks like a very staged photo.

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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, 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 #AmericanHistory

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 a floor-length skirt, dark jacket and a big hat. A small pale cat is sitting on top of the barrel.

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26 years ago, on October 24, 1999 the iconic Peanuts football gag concluded with the twist of having Rerun, Lucy's younger brother, holding the ball for Charlie Brown to kick as Lucy is called inside. Whether or not he actually *did* kick it, we'll never know.

#OTD #Peanuts #CharlieBrown #OnThisDay #Comic #Comics #ComicStrip #Snoopy

P1: Rerun, a young boy coming out of the house calling for Lucy

P2: Rerun walking as he says "Lunch Time!"

P3: Rerun approaches Lucy sitting on the ground holding the football with Charlie Brown standing next to her as she tells him "So I'll hold the ball Charlie Brown and you come running up and kick it..." as Rerun interrupts and tells her "Mom says to come in for lunch".

P4: Rerun tells Lucy "She says right now!" and Lucy replies "Oh, good grief!"

P5: Charlie Brown says "That's all right... we'll do it some other time..."

P6: Lucy hands the ball to Rerun and says "No, Rerun can take my place.."

P7: Rerun holds the ball and Charlie Brown prepares to kick it, saying "This time I'll do it! This time I'll Kick it.. Rerun will never pull it away.. he just wouldn't."

P8: Charlie Brown prepares to kick the ball saying "So here we go!"

P9: Complete change of scenery, as we never see if he did kick it or not, Rerun comes in the house and hands the ball to Lucy who asks "What happened? Did you pull the ball away? Did he kick it? What happened?"

P10: Rerun with an unfazed look on his face tells Lucy "You'll never know.." as she is shown gasping in frustration with "AAUGH!" being her main reaction.

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Today in 1962, 63 years ago: By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.

#OnThisDay

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#OnThisDay, 25 Oct 1996, the last “Magdalene laundry” in Ireland closes.

In 2013, the Irish government issued a formal state apology to the women forced to work in the homes.

Here's archive film: https://ifiplayer.ie/father-delaney-collection-magdalene-laundry/

And here's more about how the laundries operated: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/last-days-of-a-laundry-1.89388

#IrishHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

A young girl standing by a huge mangle, with mounds of laundry behind her. Other workers are in the background.

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15 women and girls working in a laundry room.

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#OnThisDay, 25 Oct 1947, women in Malta vote for the first time. Almost 35,000 women go to the polls.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #MalteseHistory #Histodons

newspaper clipping about the election, reading:

Women Vote for First Time.
YESTERDAY'S POLLING IN MALTA ELECTIONS.
GREY skies and strong winds yesterday greeted the first day of polling on the reinstitution of responsible government in Malta, Nevertheless, early risers were waiting at the polling stations when these opened at 8 a.m. Women who are voting for the first time in Maltese history. rose to the occasion and, in some stations, even outnumbered
men, though in general men were more numerous.

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#OnThisDay, 8 Jun 1944, Violette Szabo returns to occupied France by parachute for her second posting with the British Special Operations Executive.

She is captured two days later, after a gun battle. She's tortured and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. She is killed in Jan 1945. Her daughter Tania received the George Cross on her behalf in 1947.

Violette Szabo's story was filmed as Carve Her Name With Pride (1958).

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

photo of Violette Szabo. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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photo of Tania Szabo. She is a five-year old white girl in buckle shoes. A senior Army officer is leaning down to look at the George Cross pinned to her summer dress.

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#OnThisDay, 26 October 2017, Jacinda Ardern was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Aotearoa New Zealand.

She was the third woman to be NZ PM (after Jenny Shipley in 1997 and Helen Clark in 1999) and served two terms.

In 2018 she became the second Prime Minister in the world to give birth whilst in power. (The previous PM to do so was Benazir Bhutto in 1993).

Jacinda Ardern giving a press conference on the day she was sworn in. She is white woman with black hair.

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66 years ago, on October 26, 1959, Linus mentioned the Great Pumpkin in the Peanuts comic strip for the first time, kicking off an annual Halloween storyline that ran for 40 years and received its very own animated special.

#OTD #Peanuts #CharlieBrown #OnThisDay #Comic #Comics #ComicStrip #Snoopy

P1: Lucy curiously approaches Linus who is writing something looking very focused on it and she asks "What in the world are you doing?" to which he replies "Don't you know?"

P2: Linus turns to Lucy and tells her "This is the time of the year when we all write to the Great Pumpkin" and tell him what we want for Halloween.

P3: Linus licking the envelope of his presumed letter to the Great Pumpkin, telling Lucy "The "Great Pumpkin" LOVES little Children!"

P4: Linus in full excitement, arms raised up in the air saying "I can see him now rising up out of the pumpkin patch with his big bag of toys!" As a very confused Lucy keeps staring at him.

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#OnThisDay, 3 Nov 1992, voters in Illinois, USA, make Carol Moseley Braun the first African-American woman to be a US Senator. She takes up office in 1993.

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

A campaign badge for Carol Moseley Braun, and a portrait photo of her. She is a Black woman with a classic 1990s blow-out hair do.

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#OnThisDay, 5 Nov 1872, suffragists Susan B Anthony and 13 other women illegally vote in the US Presidential election.

Anthony is subsequently arrested and put on trial. She is found guilty, but refuses to pay the fine. The judge decides not to jail her.

Nine of the voters were initially reported as a "minor topic".

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

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MINOR TOPICS.
Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY has had the honour of leading to the polls the advanced guard of the coming squadrons of female voters. The little
band of nine ladies whose ballots were received by the election inspectors at Rochester deserve a permanent place in history, We have heard before of solitary instances of the recognition of the female franchise; but this picket guard of nine is a tangible enough force to make people reflect on the future possibilities which it involves. The fact is not stated, but we may assume with tolerable certainty that the nine ladies at Rochester showed their capacity for an intelligent exercise of the franchise by voting for GRANT and DIX.

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#OnThisDay in 1956, The 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" is televised for the first time as the finale of the Ford Star Jubilee series (CBS-TV) and is hosted by Bert Lahr and #JudyGarland's 10-year-old daughter, Liza Minnelli.

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70 years ago, on November 5, 1955, Doc Brown accidentally invents time travel by slipping, hitting his head on the sink, and getting a vision for the flux capacitor.

#OTD #BackToTheFuture #Movies #CineMastodon #FilmMastodon #80s #OnThisDay #BTTF #Entertainment #PopCulture

A compilation of images from the first Back to the Future film, showing the date November 5 1955 both on a newspaper and as a destination date in the DeLorean, Doc Brown showing a rough sketch of the flux capacitor and the finished model used for time travel, Marty holding a newspaper reading in shock as he realised he has travelled back in time, and Doc sitting in the DeLorean explaining to Marty how he first got the idea for time travel.

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#OnThisDay, 7 Nov 2000, Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood wins the Booker Prize for fiction for the first time, having previously been nominated 3 times (including for the Handmaid's Tale in 1986).

She wins again in 2019, jointly sharing the prize with Bernardine Evaristo.

#ReadMoreWomen

Margaret Atwood holding a copy of The Blind Assassin after winning the Booker in 2000.

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Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo congratulate each other on jointly winning the prize in 2019. Atwood is a white woman with white hair, and Evaristo is a Black woman with natural hair.

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#OnThisDay, 6 Nov 2012, Elizabeth Warren is elected US Senator for Massachusetts: the first woman to represent the State.

Her reading of Coretta Scott King's criticism of Jeff Sessions at his AG confirmation hearing prompted criticism, in turn creating the slogan #NeverthelessShePersisted.

Photo of Elizabeth Warren at a podium on her campaign trail. She is a white woman with blonde hair.

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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, 27 July 2015, film-maker and activist Bree Newsome scaled a 30ft flagpole to remove the Confederate battle flag from South Carolina state grounds.

As well as leading to the permanent removal of the flag, her action ignited a wider debate about the impact of Confederate monuments in the States.

Bree Newsom at the top of the flagpole, with the removed flag in her hand. She is a black woman in a climbing rig and hard hat.

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Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕️?

Heute #onthisday vor zwei Jahren hielt ich im #LandtagBW die bisher wichtigste Rede meines Lebens. 100 Jahre nach dem ersten Putschversuch durch #Hitler & 85 Jahre nach der #Reichspogromnacht, vier Wochen nach dem Terrormassaker der #Hamas gegen #Israel sprach ich gegen jeden #Hass & #Antisemitismus , gegen #Gewalt & auch für erneuerbare #Friedensenergien. 4 Fraktionen erhoben sich zum Applaus, eine verließ den Saal. #Rede #Erinnerung https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/im-landtag-bw-gegen-antisemitismus-meine-rede-zum-9-11-2023/

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#OnThisDay, 13 Aug 2014, Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal for her work on complex geometry. She was the first woman to win it since it began in 1936.

She died in 2017, aged just 40. Multiple awards and initiatives are named after her.

#WomenInSTEM

photo of Maryam Mirzakhani. She is an Iranian woman with short dark hair.

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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, 11 Nov 1865, Dr Mary Edwards Walker receives the Medal of Honor from US President Andrew Johnson for her services as a field surgeon in the American Civil War.

A lifelong "dress reformer", she wore trousers under short dresses and eventually switched to trousers and jackets. She was frequently arrested for her choice. "I don't wear men's clothes, I wear my own clothes," she said.

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

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Dr Mary Edwards Walker in a dress in around 1863, wearing the medal. She is a white woman with dark hair tied back.

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Dr Mary Edwards Walker in later life. She is a white woman with white hair wearing trousers, a frock coat and a topper. She still has the medal on the breast of her coat.

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#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1906, British composer Ethel Smyth's opera 'The Wreckers' opens in Leipzig. Appalled by cuts made by the production, she removes all copies of the score from the orchestra pit to prevent further performances.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #MusicHistory #Histodons

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