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#OnThisDay, 13 Mar 1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot became the provisional president of Haiti. She was the first woman to hold the role.
She stabilised the country for long enough for it to hold a free and fair election.
“I accepted the position in the name of Haitian women. I did it as a service to my country. I did it with love and determination.”
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #CaribbeanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 13 Mar 1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot became the provisional president of Haiti. She was the first woman to hold the role.
She stabilised the country for long enough for it to hold a free and fair election.
“I accepted the position in the name of Haitian women. I did it as a service to my country. I did it with love and determination.”
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #CaribbeanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 13 Mar 1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot became the provisional president of Haiti. She was the first woman to hold the role.
She stabilised the country for long enough for it to hold a free and fair election.
“I accepted the position in the name of Haitian women. I did it as a service to my country. I did it with love and determination.”
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #CaribbeanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 13 Mar 1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot became the provisional president of Haiti. She was the first woman to hold the role.
She stabilised the country for long enough for it to hold a free and fair election.
“I accepted the position in the name of Haitian women. I did it as a service to my country. I did it with love and determination.”
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #CaribbeanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 13 Mar 1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot became the provisional president of Haiti. She was the first woman to hold the role.
She stabilised the country for long enough for it to hold a free and fair election.
“I accepted the position in the name of Haitian women. I did it as a service to my country. I did it with love and determination.”
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #CaribbeanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 12 Mar 1994, the first 32 women are ordained as priests in the Church of England. Angela Berners-Wilson was the very first.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #EnglishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 12 Mar 1994, the first 32 women are ordained as priests in the Church of England. Angela Berners-Wilson was the very first.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #EnglishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 12 Mar 1994, the first 32 women are ordained as priests in the Church of England. Angela Berners-Wilson was the very first.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #EnglishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 12 Mar 1994, the first 32 women are ordained as priests in the Church of England. Angela Berners-Wilson was the very first.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #EnglishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 12 Mar 1994, the first 32 women are ordained as priests in the Church of England. Angela Berners-Wilson was the very first.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #EnglishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, is the first play by a Black woman to debut on Broadway.
Hansberry was a rising star when she died young of cancer. Her posthumous play, Young Gifted and Black, inspired her friend Nina Simone to write the song of the same name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBTk
#WomensHistoryMonth #LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1942, the current Waterloo Bridge in London partially opens. The construction force included many women, giving it the nickname “the Ladies Bridge”.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/england-built-by-women/
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#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1928, hundreds of women march through London to a Communist Party rally, demanding better working conditions.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 10 Mar 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson attacks, with a meat cleaver, Velázquez's painting of Venus in the National Gallery in London in protest at the treatment of Emmeline Pankhurst.
Suffragette attacks on art were common enough for Punch to do a cartoon of it.
#VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #BritishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 9 Mar 1906, British suffragettes Flora Drummond and Annie Kenney repeatedly knock on the door of Number 10 Downing Street during a protest.
They were basically playing 'knock down ginger' on the Prime Minister. And were arrested for it.
#WomenInHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 8 Mar 1978, over 400 women challenged Queensland’s ban on political marches by marching through Brisbane, Australia, demanding the end of violence against women, the right to abortion and lesbian rights. 51 people were arrested.
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#OnThisDay, 4 Mar 1933, Frances Perkins is sworn in as Secretary of Labor: the first woman to hold a cabinet post in the USA.
She was a workers-rights activist and key builder of the New Deal. She was in FDR's cabinet for all four terms of his Presidency.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WomenInPolitics #Histodons
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Very early #OnThisDay, 3 Mar 1944, Denise Bloch and Eileen Nearne arrived, separately, into occupied France as wireless operators for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supported the French resistance in sabotaging Nazi operations.
Both women were arrested by the summer. Denise was killed in Ravensbrück. Eileen escaped but never recovered her health.
#WomenInHistory #History #WorldWar2 #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 3 Mar 1879, Belva Lockwood is sworn in at the US Supreme Court Bar, becoming the first woman admitted to it.
#WomenInHistory #History #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 3 Mar 1913, thousands of women marched through Washington DC in the Suffrage Parade. They are led by Inez Milholland, a lawyer on a white horse, with delegations from each state following.
The day before Ida B Wells and other Black suffragists were told they would be segregated, and had to march at the back. Wells said that she would march with Illinois or not at all.
#WomenInHistory #History #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #VotesForWomen #Histodons
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#OnTheDay, 2 Mar 1977, Bette Davis receives the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award. She is the first woman to win it.
Of the 51 recipients to date, 11 have been women.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHollywood #Histodons
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#OnTheDay, 2 Mar 1977, Bette Davis receives the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award. She is the first woman to win it.
Of the 51 recipients to date, 11 have been women.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHollywood #Histodons
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#OnTheDay, 2 Mar 1977, Bette Davis receives the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award. She is the first woman to win it.
Of the 51 recipients to date, 11 have been women.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHollywood #Histodons
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#OnTheDay, 2 Mar 1977, Bette Davis receives the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award. She is the first woman to win it.
Of the 51 recipients to date, 11 have been women.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHollywood #Histodons
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#OnTheDay, 2 Mar 1977, Bette Davis receives the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award. She is the first woman to win it.
Of the 51 recipients to date, 11 have been women.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHollywood #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 19 Feb 1951, Egyptian activist Doria Shafik leads a crowd of 1,500 women onto the floor of the Egyptian parliament demanding equal rights for women.
As a result of her - and others' - activism, women were granted limited rights to vote in 1956. She spoke against the Nasser regime in 1957 and was placed under house arrest.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EgyptianHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 19 Feb 1951, Egyptian activist Doria Shafik leads a crowd of 1,500 women onto the floor of the Egyptian parliament demanding equal rights for women.
As a result of her - and others' - activism, women were granted limited rights to vote in 1956. She spoke against the Nasser regime in 1957 and was placed under house arrest.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EgyptianHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 19 Feb 1951, Egyptian activist Doria Shafik leads a crowd of 1,500 women onto the floor of the Egyptian parliament demanding equal rights for women.
As a result of her - and others' - activism, women were granted limited rights to vote in 1956. She spoke against the Nasser regime in 1957 and was placed under house arrest.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EgyptianHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 19 Feb 1951, Egyptian activist Doria Shafik leads a crowd of 1,500 women onto the floor of the Egyptian parliament demanding equal rights for women.
As a result of her - and others' - activism, women were granted limited rights to vote in 1956. She spoke against the Nasser regime in 1957 and was placed under house arrest.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EgyptianHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 19 Feb 1951, Egyptian activist Doria Shafik leads a crowd of 1,500 women onto the floor of the Egyptian parliament demanding equal rights for women.
As a result of her - and others' - activism, women were granted limited rights to vote in 1956. She spoke against the Nasser regime in 1957 and was placed under house arrest.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EgyptianHistory #Histodons