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<p>American astronomer Henrietta Hill Swope was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1902.</p><p>Working with H. Shapley, she helped establish the famous period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars, thereby permitting determination of the Sun&#x27;s position in our galaxy and of distances to other galaxies. In 1962, using plates taken with the 200&quot; Hale reflector by W. Baade, she determined the distance to the Andromeda galaxy to be 2.2 million light years.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Hill_Swope" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Hill_Swope"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriett</span><span class="invisible">a_Hill_Swope</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a> <a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#womeninSTEM</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1893.</p><p>Jerome K. Jerome founds To-Day, &quot;A weekly magazine-journal&quot;, in London. However, he had to withdraw from both publications (The Idler) because of financial difficulties and a libel suit.</p><p>Books by Jerome K. Jerome at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/173" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/173"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/173</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Italian violinist and composer Niccolò Paganini was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1782.</p><p>He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. </p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Paganini&amp;submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Paganini&amp;submit_search=Go%21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Paganini&amp;submit_search=Go%21</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 27 Oct 1967, the Abortion Act gains royal assent. It allows women in the UK – except for Northern Ireland - to legally have an abortion on a range of medical grounds but stops short of making abortion legal.</p><p>It came into effect in April 1968 everywhere except Northern Ireland: NI passed their own act in 2020.</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/britishhistory/" rel="tag">#BritishHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p>German scholar Johann Albert Fabricius was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1668.</p><p>He produced several significant bibliographies, such as Bibliotheca Graeca, Bibliotheca Latina, Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica, and Bibliotheca Latina mediae et infimae aetatis.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Albert_Fabricius" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Albert_Fabricius"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_A</span><span class="invisible">lbert_Fabricius</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 28 Oct 1908, Muriel Matters, Violet Tillard and Helen Fox unfurl a banner and then chain themselves to the grille in the Ladies Gallery in the House of Commons, London, demanding votes for women. </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/britishhistory/" rel="tag">#BritishHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a><br>1/2</p>

<p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a>: <br>‘kiss me &amp; you will see how important i am.’<br>i&#x27;m wishing a sketchy birthday to la plath, born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#otd</a> in 1932 - &amp;, even though i&#x27;ve not a chance in high hades of achieving a scintilla of the written eloquence that she displayed, here&#x27;s my scribbled ode. [cheeky wee thread follows]<br><a href="/tags/sylviaplath/" rel="tag">#sylviaPlath</a> <a href="/tags/illustration/" rel="tag">#illustration</a> <a href="/tags/poet/" rel="tag">#poet</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p>46 years ago today<br>Recorded on this day in 1978, The Feeding of the 5000, the first album by the anarcho-punk band Crass</p><p>A revolutionary album that was able to shine with anarchist political ideas and visions for the time</p><p><a href="/tags/punk/" rel="tag">#punk</a> <a href="/tags/punks/" rel="tag">#punks</a> <a href="/tags/punkrock/" rel="tag">#punkrock</a> <a href="/tags/anarchopunk/" rel="tag">#anarchopunk</a> <a href="/tags/crass/" rel="tag">#crass</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#otd</a></p>

<p>Italian physicist and academic, first woman to have doctorate in science Laura Bassi was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1711. Bassi became the most important populariser of Newtonian mechanics in Italy.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bassi" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bassi"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ba</span><span class="invisible">ssi</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a> <a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#WomenInSTEM</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1675.</p><p>Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus. He adapted the integral symbol, ∫, from the letter ſ (long s), standing for summa (written as ſumma; Latin for &quot;sum&quot; or &quot;total&quot;).</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7168" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7168"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/7168</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a></p>

<p>&quot;[...] people always live for ever when there is any annuity to be paid them.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1811.</p><p>Jane Austen publishes her first novel: Sense and Sensibility at her own expense in 3 volumes, priced at 15 s., in Thomas Egerton&#x27;s Military Library.</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/161" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/161</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1938.</p><p>Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells&#x27;s The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States.</p><p>The War of the Worlds at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/36" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/36</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>&quot;If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one&#x27;s subject matter.&quot;</p><p>Margaret Mead died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1978.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Japanese artist and printmaker Hokusai was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1760.</p><p>He is best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai</a></p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/painting/" rel="tag">#painting</a> <a href="/tags/woodblockprinting/" rel="tag">#woodblockprinting</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1612 (and 27 January 1613). Galileo Galilei became the first person to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.</p><p>Because Neptune was only beginning its yearly retrograde cycle in Dec. 1612, the motion of the planet was far too slight to be detected with Galileo&#x27;s small telescope.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune</a></p><p>Neptune at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/34991" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/34991"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/34991</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1850.</p><p>Charles Dickens&#x27;s novel David Copperfield concludes serial publication and on November 14 appears complete in book form from Bradbury and Evans in London.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/766" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/766</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1895</p><p>Thomas Hardy&#x27;s last completed novel, Jude the Obscure is published by Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co. in London, dated 1896, on completion of an expurgated serialization under the title Hearts Insurgent in Harper&#x27;s Magazine. </p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/153" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/153</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1902</p><p>Leo Tolstoy&#x27;s drama The Power of Darkness (written in 1886) has its Russian-language première at the Moscow Art Theatre by Konstantin Stanislavski with some success, although Stanislavski is self-critical.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Darkness" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Darkness"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Powe</span><span class="invisible">r_of_Darkness</span></a></p><p>The Power of Darkness at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26661" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26661</a></p><p><a href="/tags/bboks/" rel="tag">#bboks</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1520.</p><p>The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is known by this name after the Portuguese sailor Fernão de Magalhães sailed through it in the XVI century.</p><p><a href="/tags/travel/" rel="tag">#travel</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 5 July 1957, Althea Gibson becomes the first Black person to win a <a href="/tags/wimbledon/" rel="tag">#Wimbledon</a> Singles tennis trophy.</p><p>Blogpost by Moira from 2019: <br><a href="https://illustratedwomeninhistory.com/althea-gibson/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="illustratedwomeninhistory.com/althea-gibson/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">illustratedwomeninhistory.com/</span><span class="invisible">althea-gibson/</span></a></p><p>Newsreel: <a href="https://youtu.be/2EJCqBsh2Dk?t=1m15s" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>youtu.be/2EJCqBsh2Dk?t=1m15s</a></p><p>Listen to her being interviewed here (dead bird link)<br><a href="https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1412427791396659204" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1412427791396659204"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/</span><span class="invisible">1412427791396659204</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/blackhistory/" rel="tag">#BlackHistory</a> <a href="/tags/tennishistory/" rel="tag">#TennisHistory</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>&quot;Man is free at the instant he wants to be.&quot;</p><p>French writer, deist and philosopher Voltaire was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1694. He established himself as one of the leading writers of the enlightenment.</p><p>Books by Voltaire at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/913" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/913"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/913</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/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1748.</p><p>The first instalment of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, also known as Fanny Hill, is published anonymously by John Cleland to raise money to free himself from the London debtors&#x27; prison. It is considered by some to be the first modern erotic novel.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Hill" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Hill"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Hi</span><span class="invisible">ll</span></a></p><p>Memoirs of Fanny Hill at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/25305" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/25305</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1908.</p><p>The release in France of La Mort du duc de Guise marks the first film with a screenplay by Henri Lavedan; it is also directed by Charles Le Bargy and André Calmettes. Music composed by Camille Saint-Saëns.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh0tonXPEKQ" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh0tonXPEKQ"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh0ton</span><span class="invisible">XPEKQ</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/cinema/" rel="tag">#cinema</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a></p>

<p>Science history: Richard Feynman gives a fun little lecture — and dreams up an entirely new field of physics — Dec. 29, 1959</p><p>By Tia Ghose </p><p><a href="https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/particle-physics/science-history-richard-feynman-gives-a-fun-little-lecture-and-dreams-up-an-entirely-new-field-of-physics-dec-29-1959" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/particle-physics/science-history-richard-feynman-gives-a-fun-little-lecture-and-dreams-up-an-entirely-new-field-of-physics-dec-29-1959"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.livescience.com/physics-ma</span><span class="invisible">thematics/particle-physics/science-history-richard-feynman-gives-a-fun-little-lecture-and-dreams-up-an-entirely-new-field-of-physics-dec-29-1959</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#otd</a></p>

<p>Abby Morton Diaz was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1821.</p><p>Born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, she became involved in the reform movements of the 19th century, particularly those related to women&#x27;s suffrage, education, and labor.</p><p>Abby Morton Diaz at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2166" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2166"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2166</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>