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#OnThisDay, 13 Feb 1907, around 15 suffragettes rush into the lobby of the House of Commons in London: around 60 more are arrested outside.
The picture shows their release the next day.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 13 Feb 1881, Herbertine Auclert publishes the first edition of La Citoyenne in Paris, France. The feminist newspaper runs for ten years.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FrenchHistory #WomenPublishers #Histodons
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Mud, glorious mud!
#OnThisDay, 9 Feb 1907, around 3,000 people take part in the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies' march through London, demanding the vote.
The weather was dreadful, hence its nickname of “the Mud March”.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #Histodons
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These are the eighteen women elected as MPs in Turkey #OnThisDay, 8 Feb 1935. It was the first time women in Turkey could vote, and stand, in parliamentary elections.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #TurkishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 7 Feb 1971, women in Switzerland win the right to vote in federal elections after a national referendum. One canton continued to deny women the vote until a court case in 1990.
Snail pic is from a suffrage protest in 1928 which was complaining about the slow progress towards #VotesForWomen.
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#OnThisDay, 6 Feb 1918, the Representation of the People Act receives royal assent, allowing some women in the UK the right to vote in general elections.
All men over 21 were able to vote for the first time, but only women over 30 who met some property requirements could join them at the ballot box.
Full enfranchisement came in 1928.
Listen to the Sheffield Street Choirs sing 'Nana was a Suffragette': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KklWkhG748
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#OnThisDay, 6 Feb 1987, Mary Gaudron QC was the first woman to be sworn as a justice in the High Court of Australia.
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#OnThisDay, 5 Feb 1919, Mary Pickford co-founds United Artists in Hollywood. The production company was an attempt by actors and directors to control their own work rather than being owned by a studio.
#ReclaimTheFrame #HollywoodHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 4 Feb 1981, Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland becomes Prime Minister of Norway for the first of her three terms. She is the first woman to hold the role.
She was also Director General of the World Health Organisation between 1998 and 2003.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInPolitics #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 3 Feb 1995, Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle on a mission when she took the helm of #Discovery. She would go on to become the first woman to command a Shuttle.
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#OnThisDay, 2 Feb 1953, Dr Anna de Waal becomes State Secretary for Education, Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands. She is the first woman to hold a ministerial cabinet post in the country.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #DutchHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 2 Feb 1953, Dr Anna de Waal becomes State Secretary for Education, Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands. She is the first woman to hold a ministerial cabinet post in the country.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #DutchHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 2 Feb 1953, Dr Anna de Waal becomes State Secretary for Education, Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands. She is the first woman to hold a ministerial cabinet post in the country.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #DutchHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 2 Feb 1953, Dr Anna de Waal becomes State Secretary for Education, Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands. She is the first woman to hold a ministerial cabinet post in the country.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #DutchHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 2 Feb 1953, Dr Anna de Waal becomes State Secretary for Education, Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands. She is the first woman to hold a ministerial cabinet post in the country.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #DutchHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 1 Feb 2009, Johanna Sigurdardottir becomes the Prime Minister of Iceland. She was the first openly LGBT head of a government in the world.
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#OnThisDay, 31 Jan 1945, women in Italy gained the right to vote in general as well as local elections.
Women voted in Italian general elections for the first time in 1946.
There's a marvelous photo over on getty showing an 82 year old woman being helped to vote for the first time in 1946.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #ItalianHistory #Histodons
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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
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that #OnThisDay, 28 Jan 1813, a new novel 'by the author of Sense & Sensibility' was published.
'Pride & Prejudice' by Jane Austen has sold over 20 million copies, and had many imitators. During her lifetime, it never carried her name as the author.
Bonus photo of Jennifer Ehle as Lizzie Bennett, giving us the side-eye.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #LiteraryWomen #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 23 Jan 1977, Patricia R Harris takes up duty as Housing and Urban Development secretary in the US cabinet. She is the first African-American woman to hold a US cabinet post.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInPolitics #Histodons #AmericanHistory
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#OnThisDay, 23 Jan 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell graduates with a medical degree. She is the first woman to receive one in the USA. She was also the first woman on the UK medical register.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #Histodons #AmericanHistory
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#OnThisDay, 23 Jan 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell graduates with a medical degree. She is the first woman to receive one in the USA. She was also the first woman on the UK medical register.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #Histodons #AmericanHistory
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#OnThisDay, 23 Jan 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell graduates with a medical degree. She is the first woman to receive one in the USA. She was also the first woman on the UK medical register.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #Histodons #AmericanHistory
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#OnThisDay, 23 Jan 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell graduates with a medical degree. She is the first woman to receive one in the USA. She was also the first woman on the UK medical register.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #Histodons #AmericanHistory
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#OnThisDay, 23 Jan 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell graduates with a medical degree. She is the first woman to receive one in the USA. She was also the first woman on the UK medical register.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #Histodons #AmericanHistory
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#OnThisDay, 22 Jan 1944, Sonia Olschanezky is arrested by the Gestapo. She'd run an Special Operations Executive guerrilla network near Paris after the leader was arrested. The British-based SOE supported the French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
She was killed at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp six months after her arrest.
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#OnThisDay, 22 Jan 1944, Sonia Olschanezky is arrested by the Gestapo. She'd run an Special Operations Executive guerrilla network near Paris after the leader was arrested. The British-based SOE supported the French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
She was killed at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp six months after her arrest.
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#OnThisDay, 22 Jan 1944, Sonia Olschanezky is arrested by the Gestapo. She'd run an Special Operations Executive guerrilla network near Paris after the leader was arrested. The British-based SOE supported the French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
She was killed at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp six months after her arrest.
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#OnThisDay, 22 Jan 1944, Sonia Olschanezky is arrested by the Gestapo. She'd run an Special Operations Executive guerrilla network near Paris after the leader was arrested. The British-based SOE supported the French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
She was killed at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp six months after her arrest.
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#OnThisDay, 22 Jan 1944, Sonia Olschanezky is arrested by the Gestapo. She'd run an Special Operations Executive guerrilla network near Paris after the leader was arrested. The British-based SOE supported the French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
She was killed at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp six months after her arrest.