<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 7 Apr 1141, Matilda is legally recognised as ruler of England in her own right. Her coronation never happens.</p><p>She was appointed heir by her father Henry I, then usurped by her cousin Stephen after Henry’s death. The civil war between the cousins is known as the Anarchy and lasted from 1138 to 1153.</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><br><a href="/tags/englishhistory/" rel="tag">#EnglishHistory</a> <a href="/tags/anarchyintheuk/" rel="tag">#AnarchyInTheUK</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> In 1859, Samuel Langhorne Clemens receives his steamboat pilot’s license. </p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-april-9-2026/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-april-9-2026/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-april</span><span class="invisible">-9-2026/</span></a></p><p>Books by Mark Twain at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/53</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>"I don’t wear men’s clothes, I wear my own."</p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 10 Apr 1864, army surgeon Dr Mary Edwards Walker is captured by the Confederates during the US Civil War. She later receives the Medal of Honor.</p><p>As well as serving in the Civil War, and being a dress reformer who preferred to wear trousers, she was also a suffragist who declined to take her husband’s name when they married.</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> in 1935 Anna Katharine Green died. "She was one of the first authors of detective fiction in the United States and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Katharine_Green" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Katharine_Green"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kat</span><span class="invisible">harine_Green</span></a></p><p>Books by Green at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/541" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/541"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/541</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
