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#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress.

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

Jeanette Rankin standing in front of the dome of the US Capitol on a windy day. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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#OnThisDay, 16 Jan 1970, Dilma Rousseff, a member of the Brazilian guerrilla movement against the military government, was arrested. She was labelled the “Joan of Arc” of the movement.

In 2011 she became the first woman to be president of Brazil.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Black and white photo of Dilma Rousseff at her military court hearing. The judges in the background are hiding their faces with their hands.

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#OnThisDay, 26 Dec 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie announced their discovery of radium.

In 1903, Marie, Pierre and Henri Becquerel received the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on radiation. Marie was the first woman to receive the award.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons

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posed photograph of Marie Curie in her lab holding a volumetric flask. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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#OnThisDay, 29 Jan 1891, Liliʻuokalani is sworn in as Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

She is the first, and only, regnant queen of the country and is deposed in a coup in 1893 that was supported by the US marines.

#RegnantWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Liliʻuokalani in London in 1888 where she was an official envoy of the Hawaiian king at Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. She is a Hawaiian woman with dark hair, wearing a fashionably ornate day dress.

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#OnThisDay, 30 Jan 1913, Ida B Wells forms the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, Illinois, to give a voice to Black women who had been excluded by national suffrage organisations because of their race.

In March 1913, the club headed to Washington DC to take part in the national Women’s Suffrage Procession. They were told to march at the back, in a segregated section, so as not to upset white southern women.

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

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Ida B Wells in the 1920s. She is a Black woman with greying hair.

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#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly. Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not.

In 2018 Bell Burnell received a £3m prize for her work. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell in front of a radio telescope dish in the 1960s. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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#OnThisDay, 24 Mar 1944, Éliane Plewman is arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied France after six months operating as a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance. A courier carried messages and equipment around their network.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory #SOE

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studio photo of Éliane Plewman in civvies. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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#OnThisDay, 15 Feb 1776, Hannah Cowley’s first play, The Runaway, opened at Drury Lane.

Cowley had written her play and sent it to David Garrick, Drury Lane’s manager, after sitting through a particularly rubbish play. Garrick cast a young Sarah Siddons in the lead.

Siddon’s character rails against the marriage vows: 'I won't hear of it, “love” one might manage that perhaps, but “honour, obey”!’

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons #BritishHistory

an engraving of Hannah Cowley. She is a white woman with a mass of dark hair.

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#OnThisDay, 9 May 1922, the International Astronomical Union formally adopts Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system. The principles in it still underpin modern classification.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Astronomy #WomenInSTEM #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Annie Jump Cannon sat at a desk. She is clearly not a fan of a clear desk policy as it's messy with papers and open drawers. She is a white woman with pale hair.

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"I'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."

#OnThisDay, 3 Jun 1949, Georgia Neese Clark Gray becomes the first woman to be Treasurer of the USA.

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

Photo of Georgia Neese Gray. she is a white woman with dark hair, wearing a tweed suit.

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#OnThisDay, 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.

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

Camilla Williams as Cio-Cio San in Madame Butterfly, along with another singer. Both are dressed in kimonos.

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#OnThisDay, 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's highest mountain.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

A climber in a thick orange suit standing on the snow-capped top of Mount Everest and holding onto a Japanese flag.

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#OnThisDay, 18 May 1953, pilot Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AviationHistory #Histodons

A posed photo of Jackie Cochran sitting on the edge of her plane. She's a white woman with blonde hair and is rather implausibly wearing high heels. Breaking the sound barrier as a pilot? In these shoes? I don't think so.

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#OnThisDay, 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]

Obviously, just because a law exists, doesn't mean pay is now equal.

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

John F Kennedy seated in the Oval office, holding a pen. Thirteen women are standing around him. Twelve are white, and one is black. Someone must have told a good joke as everyone is smiling or laughing.

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“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”

#OnThisDay, 19 May 1952, Lillian Hellman writes to the House of UnAmerican Activities refusing to testify against others.

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.

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

Lillian Hellman in a posed photo with a manual typewriter as if writing her letter to HUAC. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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#OnThisDay, 3 Jun 1924, Alfonsina Strada crosses the finish line of the Giro d'Italia. She remains the only woman to have officially ridden a full length Grand Tour.

At one point she had been disqualified on time grounds but was allowed to continue without the option of prizes. She finished ahead of the lantern rouge (the last cyclist to finish).

This year's Giro d'Italia for women is 939km, compared to 3443km for the men's race.

#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory #Cycling #Histodons

studio postcard of Alfonsina Strada on her bike. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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“Have ye come far?”
“Only from America.”

#OnThisDay, 21 May 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman - and only the second person - to fly solo and without stops across the Atlantic.

She lands unexpectedly in Ireland. There’s some wonderful images of her here: https://joecampbellart.com/2015/03/12/amelia-earhart-in-ireland-solo-atlantic-crossing-may-21st-1932/

Watch newsreel of her taking off here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-itPeJOyzI

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AviationHistory @histodons #Histodons

Amelia Earhart sitting on the wheel of her small prop plane, posing for photos. She's a white woman with cropped hair and dressed in a flight suit.

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#OnThisDay, 4 Jun 1919, the US Senate approved the 19th amendment, in theory granting all women the right to vote. It was ratified in August 1920.

But it took until 1965 to lift state level laws that denied many women their rights.
More here: https://www.neh.gov/article/winning-vote-divided-movement-brought-about-nineteenth-amendment

#History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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#OnThisDay, 4 Jun 1972, civil rights activist Angela Davis is acquitted in a trial over her alleged involvement in the 1970 Marin County Civic Centre attack.

Davis had been prosecuted for three capital felonies, including conspiracy to murder, after guns she owned were used in the attack. The all-white jury cleared her of all charges.

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

Angela Davis in the early 1970s. She is a black woman with a large 'fro, wearing denims.

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#OnThisDay, 23 May 1430, Jeanne d'Arc, fighting in the rearguard, is pulled from her horse and captured by the Burgundians at the siege of Compiègne. She is then sold as a prisoner to the British, who put her on trial for heresy.

Learn more about Jeanne’s rise and fall here: https://carvehername.org.uk/joan-of-arc-7-may-1429/

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #JoanOfArc #EuropeanHistory #Histodons

Painting of Jeanne d'Arc on a white charger, wearing gold armour and carrying a flag.

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#OnThisDay, 23 May 1988, four women storm the BBC news studio whilst the news is live on air, protesting the introduction of Section 28. Section 28 banned the “promotion of homosexuality” by local government in the UK, and was intended to stop LGBT+ campaigns for equal rights.

It was not repealed until 2003.

Watch footage from the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZdpNjJakiI&ab_channel=BBCStories

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #LGBTHistory #BritishHistory #Section28 #Histodons

A badge with a black inverted triangle. A pink box over the top reads 'stop the clause'.

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A newspaper headline from the Daily Mirror, reading 'Beeb man sits on lesbian'.

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#OnThisDay, 23 May 1944, Madeleine Lavigne parachutes back into occupied France as a wireless operator for the British Special Operations Executive. She'd previously worked for the resistance as a forger and courier.

Radio operators ran the greatest risk of detection, as their position could be triangulated when they were on air.

She died in Paris of an embolism.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory #Histodons

The suitcase wireless kit used by radio operators.

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#OnThisDay, 5 Jun 1988, Aussie Kay Cottee sails back into Sydney, Australia. She is the first woman to complete a single-handed, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe without any assistance.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AustralianHistory #Histodons

Kay Cottee on her yacht. She's a white woman and is holding the Australian flag up.

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#OnThisDay, 23 May 1907, 19 women take their seats in the Finnish Parliament. They are the first women Parliamentarians in the world.

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

Thirteen of the nineteen women parliamentarians: six are seated and seven are standing behind them. They are all white women and most are wearing dark clothes.

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#OnThisDay, 23 May 1941 Giliana Balmaceda (Gillian Gerson) lands in occupied France. She is the first woman to be a Special Operations Executive agent in France, and scouts out escape lines and collects documents to be forged.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory #Histodons

A green wall plaque indicating a building was the HQ of the Special Operations Executive which was a secret service which supported the resistance in enemy-occupied countries in World War 2

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