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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OtD</a> 19 Apr 1943 the Warsaw ghetto uprising broke out in earnest when Jews fought back against Nazi attempts to deport them to the Treblinka extermination camp. Although defeated after 27 days it was the biggest armed Jewish rebellion of the Holocaust <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9062/Warsaw-Ghetto-Uprising" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9062/Warsaw-Ghetto-Uprising"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/9062/Warsaw-Ghetto-Uprising</span></a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1975, humorist P. G. Wodehouse died.</p><p>Wodehouse &quot;was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf....&quot;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wo</span><span class="invisible">dehouse</span></a></p><p>Books by Wodehouse at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/783" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/783"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/783</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.</p><p>The Academy originally planned to award only Pierre and Henri Becquerel. Pierre insisted that Marie should also be included.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#WomenInSTEM</a> <a href="/tags/nobelwomen/" rel="tag">#NobelWomen</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> Virginia Woolf&#x27;s Mrs. Dalloway was published.</p><p>What a Plunge! Teaching Mrs. Dalloway to High Schoolers in 2025</p><p>by Mia Manzulli</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/what-a-plunge-teaching-mrs-dalloway-to-high-schoolers-in-2025/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/what-a-plunge-teaching-mrs-dalloway-to-high-schoolers-in-2025/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/what-a-plunge-teach</span><span class="invisible">ing-mrs-dalloway-to-high-schoolers-in-2025/</span></a></p><p>Mrs. Dalloway at PG</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71865" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71865</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>English mathematician Henry Briggs died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1630.</p><p>He is notable for changing the original logarithms invented by John Napier into common (base 10) logarithms, which are sometimes known as Briggsian logarithms in his honour. The specific algorithm for long division in modern use was introduced by Briggs c. 1600 AD. Historically&#x27;, the &quot;common logarithm&quot; was known by its Latin name logarithmus decimalis or logarithmus decadis.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Briggs_(mathematician)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Briggs_(mathematician)"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Br</span><span class="invisible">iggs_(mathematician)</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 9 May 1922, the International Astronomical Union formally adopts Annie Jump Cannon&#x27;s stellar classification system. The principles in it still underpin modern classification.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#Astronomy</a> <a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#WomenInSTEM</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p>Happy Birthday to David Byrne, lead singer and guitarist of the Talking Heads, born on this day in 1952, Dumbarton, Scotland</p><p>Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Earliest Live Video, Live at CBGB&#x27;s,1975)</p><p><a href="/tags/punkrock/" rel="tag">#punkrock</a> <a href="/tags/postpunk/" rel="tag">#postpunk</a> <a href="/tags/newwave/" rel="tag">#newwave</a> <a href="/tags/davidbyrne/" rel="tag">#davidbyrne</a> <a href="/tags/talkingheads/" rel="tag">#talkingheads</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#otd</a></p>

<p>Happy birthday to Kathleen Hanna, American singer, pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, lead singer of the feminist punk band Bikini Kill, frontwoman of Le Tigre in the late 1990s, born this day 1968 in Portland</p><p> <a href="/tags/womenofpunk/" rel="tag">#womenofpunk</a> <a href="/tags/kathleenhanna/" rel="tag">#kathleenhanna</a> <a href="/tags/riotgrrrl/" rel="tag">#riotgrrrl</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#otd</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OtD</a> 14 Jun 1983 hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Chile demanding an end to the US-backed Pinochet dictatorship. Authorities arrested over 1000 people and shot 15, killing three, but the crackdown failed to stop working-class resistance <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8587/mass-protests-against-pinochet" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8587/mass-protests-against-pinochet"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/8587/mass-protests-against-pinochet</span></a></p>

<p>&quot;I&#x27;ve never worked so hard in my life than when I was US Treasurer. I knew I had to make good on behalf of American women.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 3 Jun 1949, Georgia Neese Clark Gray becomes the first woman to be Treasurer of the USA.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OtD</a> 31 May 1927 Donald Trump&#x27;s father, Fred Trump, was arrested at a KKK rally in Queens, NYC. Despite Donald Trump denying it happened, multiple newspapers reported it, giving Fred Trump&#x27;s address and reporting all those arrested as wearing KKK robes <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10390/fred-trump-arrested-at-kkk-rally" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10390/fred-trump-arrested-at-kkk-rally"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/10390/fred-trump-arrested-at-kkk-rally</span></a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 15 May 1946, Camilla Williams makes her operatic debut as Cio-Cio San with the New York City Opera. She is the first Black woman to sign a contract with a major US opera company.</p><p>Read more: <a href="https://carvehername.org.uk/eight-famous-women-singers/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="carvehername.org.uk/eight-famous-women-singers/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">carvehername.org.uk/eight-famo</span><span class="invisible">us-women-singers/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistory/" rel="tag">#BlackHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 16 May 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei reaches the summit of Everest. She is the first woman to make it to the peak of the world&#x27;s highest mountain.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 18 May 1953, pilot Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier. </p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/aviationhistory/" rel="tag">#AviationHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 10 Jun 1963, the US President signed the Equal Pay Act into law, witnessed by members of the American Association of University Women. [photo JFK Library]</p><p>Obviously, just because a law exists, doesn&#x27;t mean pay is now equal.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p>Robert Louis Stevenson &amp; Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne married <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 19 May, 1880. In this article, Prof Penny Fielding explores the dangerous collaboration between RLS &amp; his wife: granting female agency on the page &amp; in life</p><p>1/3</p><p><a href="https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2017/01/06/a-dangerous-collaboration/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="dangerouswomenproject.org/2017/01/06/a-dangerous-collaboration/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dangerouswomenproject.org/2017</span><span class="invisible">/01/06/a-dangerous-collaboration/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/19thcentury/" rel="tag">#19thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/victorian/" rel="tag">#Victorian</a> <a href="/tags/robertlouisstevenson/" rel="tag">#RobertLouisStevenson</a> <a href="/tags/rls/" rel="tag">#RLS</a> <a href="/tags/womenwriters/" rel="tag">#WomenWriters</a></p>

<p>Iain M. Banks (1954–2013) was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 16 Feb: a 🎂 🧵<br>1/13</p><p>“Iain Banks… is a novelist who has his own ‘double’, an author for whom the idea of a split writing persona is emphatically not out of place”</p><p>—“Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M) Banks” – a 2010 article on Banks’s genre-busting career</p><p>@bookstodon </p><p><a href="https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/reading-double-writing-double-the-fiction-of-iain-m-banks/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/reading-double-writing-double-the-fiction-of-iain-m-banks/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/1</span><span class="invisible">1/reading-double-writing-double-the-fiction-of-iain-m-banks/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/iainbanks/" rel="tag">#IainBanks</a> <a href="/tags/iainmbanks/" rel="tag">#IainMBanks</a> <a href="/tags/theculture/" rel="tag">#TheCulture</a></p>

<p>“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year&#x27;s fashions.”</p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 19 May 1952, Lillian Hellman writes to the House of UnAmerican Activities refusing to testify against others. </p><p>In the 1940s, Hellman had been twice nominated for an Academy Award for her screenplays. As a result of refusing to testify about others to HUAC, she was blacklisted by Hollywood. </p><p><a href="/tags/hollywoodhistory/" rel="tag">#HollywoodHistory</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a>: &#x27;do you want to live on your knees or die on your feet?&#x27;<br>kathleen cleaver (born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#otd</a> in 1945) would like an answer, please. <br>this revolutionary kick-activist law professor was one of the most prominent leaders in the black panther party &amp;, when she returned from exile in algeria, kathleen earned a full scholarship from yale, where, in 1984, she graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree. <br><a href="/tags/kathleencleaver/" rel="tag">#kathleenCleaver</a> <a href="/tags/blackpantherparty/" rel="tag">#blackPantherParty</a> <a href="/tags/activism/" rel="tag">#activism</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#texas</a> <a href="/tags/illustration/" rel="tag">#illustration</a></p>

<p>Robert Tannahill (1774–1810), “the weaver poet”, was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 3 June – “second only to Robert Burns as a poet writing chiefly in the language of the working class of Scotland”</p><p>1/3</p><p><a href="https://www.thenational.scot/culture/24360177.celebrating-scotlands-second-greatest-poet-robert-tannahill/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thenational.scot/culture/24360177.celebrating-scotlands-second-greatest-poet-robert-tannahill/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thenational.scot/culture/2</span><span class="invisible">4360177.celebrating-scotlands-second-greatest-poet-robert-tannahill/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/18thcentury/" rel="tag">#18thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/19thcentury/" rel="tag">#19thCentury</a> <a href="/tags/romanticism/" rel="tag">#romanticism</a> <a href="/tags/pastoral/" rel="tag">#pastoral</a> <a href="/tags/workingclass/" rel="tag">#workingclass</a></p>

<p>“Of aal the fish there iss in the sea,” said Para Handy, “nothing bates the herrin’; it’s a providence they’re plentiful and them so cheap!”</p><p>Neil Munro (1863–1930) – journalist, novelist, short-story writer, &amp; poet – was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 3 June. Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of Herring discusses Munro’s PARA HANDY stories, as well as giving the full text of the tale “The Herring – A Gossip”</p><p>1/4</p><p><a href="https://www.herripedia.com/para-handy/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.herripedia.com/para-handy/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#humour</a> <a href="/tags/shortstory/" rel="tag">#shortstory</a> <a href="/tags/herring/" rel="tag">#herring</a> <a href="/tags/19thcentury/" rel="tag">#19thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1816.</p><p>At the Villa Diodati, Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, then challenges each to write a ghost story, culminating in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, John Polidori’s story “The Vampyre,” and Byron’s poem “Darkness.” </p><p>Fantasmagoriana:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasmagoriana" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasmagoriana"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasma</span><span class="invisible">goriana</span></a></p><p>The Vampyre:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6087" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6087</a></p><p>Frankenstein:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84</a></p><p>Darkness:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20158" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20158</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p>Archie Hind (1928–2008), author of THE DEAR GREEN PLACE (1966), was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 3 June</p><p>“The only other 20th-century novel I know that places a writer’s struggle in an equally well-imagined city is Nabokov’s THE GIFT”<br>—Alasdair Gray</p><p><a href="https://www.scotswhayhae.com/post/with-hind-s-sight-a-review-of-archie-hind-s-the-dear-green-place" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.scotswhayhae.com/post/with-hind-s-sight-a-review-of-archie-hind-s-the-dear-green-place"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.scotswhayhae.com/post/with</span><span class="invisible">-hind-s-sight-a-review-of-archie-hind-s-the-dear-green-place</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thCentury</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#novel</a> <a href="/tags/glasgow/" rel="tag">#Glasgow</a></p>

<p>“Have ye come far?” <br>“Only from America.” </p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 21 May 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman - and only the second person - to fly solo and without stops across the Atlantic.</p><p>She lands unexpectedly in Ireland. There’s some wonderful images of her here: <a href="https://joecampbellart.com/2015/03/12/amelia-earhart-in-ireland-solo-atlantic-crossing-may-21st-1932/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="joecampbellart.com/2015/03/12/amelia-earhart-in-ireland-solo-atlantic-crossing-may-21st-1932/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">joecampbellart.com/2015/03/12/</span><span class="invisible">amelia-earhart-in-ireland-solo-atlantic-crossing-may-21st-1932/</span></a></p><p>Watch newsreel of her taking off here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-itPeJOyzI" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-itPeJOyzI"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-itPe</span><span class="invisible">JOyzI</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/aviationhistory/" rel="tag">#AviationHistory</a> @histodons <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p>Aonghas Dubh – Ceòl às na Briathran<br>The poet &amp; writer Aonghas MacNeacail (1942–2022) was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 7 June. This programme, originally aired on the BBC, is drawn from “Skerries, Trawlings, Tides” – a literary event celebrating Aonghas’s 80th birthday</p><p>1/2</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAb0LdDuaSk" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAb0LdDuaSk"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAb0Ld</span><span class="invisible">DuaSk</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/gaelic/" rel="tag">#Gaelic</a> <a href="/tags/gaidhlig/" rel="tag">#Gaidhlig</a></p>