#OnThisDay, 28 May 1990, Maiden, captained by Tracy Edwards, crosses the finishing line to become the first all-woman crew to complete the Round the World yacht race.
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Happy (?) birthday Ambrose Bierce! The American journalist, born #onthisday in 1842, is best known for his satirical dictionary The Cynic’s Word Book also known as The Devil’s Dictionary. Read it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-cynic-s-word-book-1906 #otd
"You need not be afraid to give us our rights for fear we will take too much, for we won't take more than our pint'll hold."
#OnThisDay, 29 May 1851, Sojourner Truth addresses the Woman's Rights Convention in Ohio.
Her speech is commonly known as 'ain't I a woman' although that comes from a dubious transcript that uses racial tropes.
Read more about that at https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/compare-the-speeches/
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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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#OnThisDay, 12 Jun 1948, the Womens Armed Services Integration Act is signed by US President Truman, allowing women to serve in the military outside wartime.
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#OnThisDay in 1913, Berthe Mayer was born. During the #SecondWorldWar, she worked as a radio operator for her husband Percy, an SOE agent on #Madagascar.
When the allies took the north of the island, Percy ended up behind Allied lines and Berthe behind French lines. Despite having small children and SOE and her husband telling her to stop, she kept transmitting intelligence on her radio. The French authorities knew a radio was transmitting somewhere and searched her house multiple times, but never found any evidence.
In November 1943, she received the MBE in recognition of her work.
#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.
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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/
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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
"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.
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Double-exposure photograph, staged for Century magazine in 1899, showing Nikola Tesla — born #onthisday in 1856 — seated beneath a giant “magnifying transmitter”, arcing 22-foot-long bolts of electricity: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nikola-tesla-in-his-laboratory
#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
"If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."
#OnThisDay, 12 July 1972, Shirley Chisholm becomes the first Black US Presidential candidate, winning 152 votes in the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention.
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Circular snapshots from the very first @kodak camera (the first truly portable camera) — invented by George Eastman who was born #onthisday in New York in 1854. more examples here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kodak-no-1-circular-snapshots #OTD
#OnThisDay, 22 June 1812, Canadian Laura Secord is said to have walked 19 miles to warn British forces of an impending American attack in the War of 1812.
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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.
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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
#OnThisDay, 26 Jun 1949, all Belgian women are able to vote in Parliamentary elections for the first time.
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#OnThisDay in 2019, Japanese animation film "Spirited Away" by #HayaoMiyazaki is released in China and tops the box office, 18 years after its initial release.
#OnThisDay, 17 July 1979, Simone Veil became the first President of the European Parliament, and the first woman to preside over any EU institution.
As Health Minister in France, Veil had passed laws enabling access to contraception and legalising abortion.
#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.
Read more: http://ow.ly/eGQj30kF35C
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Emma Goldman — born #onthisday in 1869 — was a radical critic of capitalism, the state, patriarchy and colonialism during the fertile political years of the late 19th and early 20th century. More on her life and “anarchism without adjectives” here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/emma-goldmans-anarchism-without-adjectives #otd
39 years today since Jim Henson's cult classic 'Labyrinth' was released on June 27th 1986, with George Lucas as executive producer, starring Jennifer Connelly as Sarah Williams and David Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King.
(Original illustration by Kevin M Wilson https://www.apemeetsgirl.com)
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#OnThisDay, 18 July 1976, Romanian Nadia Comăneci becomes the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 at the Olympics. She broke the scoreboards as they only went to 9.99.
In 1989, having lived under tight surveillance and control since she was a child, she defected to the USA by walking through the night from Romania to Hungary.
Today in 1969, 56 years ago: in New York the Stonewall riots are unleashed, a series of altercations in favor of the rights of transgender and homosexual people that took place around the Stonewall Inn bar.