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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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#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.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CanadianHistory

A Canadian stamp with an illustration of Laura Secord wearing a bonnet and shawl. It's somewhat romaticised.

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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 in 2019, Japanese animation film "Spirited Away" by #HayaoMiyazaki is released in China and tops the box office, 18 years after its initial release.

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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.

Read more: http://ow.ly/eGQj30kF35C

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

newspaper illustration showing the south view of the village of Canterbury with Miss Crandall's school highlighted.

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Portrait of Miss Crandall. She is a white woman in a fashionable shawl and with her hair pinned back.

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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

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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)

#Labyrinth #OTD #Movies #Cinemastodon #FilmMastodon #80s #JimHenson #OnThisDay #Art #Artwork #Illustration

Illustration showing Sarah from the Labyrinth sitting in her bedroom, wearing her distinctive outfit from the film, sitting with her legs crossed on the bed holding a book and reading it with visible fascination as she is surrounded by most of the main characters from the film including Hoggle the dwarf, Ludo, a brown horned beast, William the worm, a blue worm-like creature wearing a tiny red scarf around its neck, Sir Didymus a talking Yorkshire Terrier wearing an eye patch and Ambrosius the dog sitting next to the bed near them. In the room there are several items referencing both the film and other Jim Henson works including the Muppets and The Dark Crystal, including a picture of Henson himself holding Kermit the frog hanging on the wall.

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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.

#OnThisDay

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#OnThisDay, 30 June 1966 Pauli Murray, Betty Friedan and 26 others founded the National Organisation for Women (NOW) in the USA.

NOW are currently campaigning for abortion rights, LGBTQ+ rights, racial and economic justice and the end to violence against women and girls.

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

photo of Pauli Murray: a black civil rights lawyer and eventually a priest.

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photo of Betty Friedan: a white woman, author of the Feminine Mystique which is credited with launching second wave feminism.

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#OnThisDay, 1 Jul 2015, Misty Copeland becomes the first Black woman to be a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre. She has just announced she will retire in October 2025.

Here's an article on the implicit - and sometimes explicit - racism in ballet which helps explain why Copeland's success was ground-breaking: https://buff.ly/3sVpik9

Misty Copeland on a photoshoot. She is a Black woman wearing shorts and a t-shirt. She is en pointe in trainers.

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#OnThisDay, 2 Jul 1928, the UK's Representation of the People Act comes into effect, finally giving women equal voting rights to men. It increases the number of women eligible to vote to 15 million.

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

frontpage of the 1928 representation of the people act

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