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#OnThisDay, 21 Jan 1648, Margaret Brent demands the right to sit on the Maryland council in her dual roles as a land-owner and Lord Baltimore's attorney.
She was denied, and left saying she "Protested against all proceedings in this present assembly unless she may be present and have vote."
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 15 Jan 1559, Elizabeth Tudor is crowned as Queen Elizabeth of England. She reigned alone until her death in 1603.
Her foreign policy included privateering, colonising Virginia and approving the start of the East India Company.
#RegnantWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EnglishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 15 Jan 1559, Elizabeth Tudor is crowned as Queen Elizabeth of England. She reigned alone until her death in 1603.
Her foreign policy included privateering, colonising Virginia and approving the start of the East India Company.
#RegnantWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EnglishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 15 Jan 1559, Elizabeth Tudor is crowned as Queen Elizabeth of England. She reigned alone until her death in 1603.
Her foreign policy included privateering, colonising Virginia and approving the start of the East India Company.
#RegnantWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EnglishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 15 Jan 1559, Elizabeth Tudor is crowned as Queen Elizabeth of England. She reigned alone until her death in 1603.
Her foreign policy included privateering, colonising Virginia and approving the start of the East India Company.
#RegnantWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EnglishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 15 Jan 1559, Elizabeth Tudor is crowned as Queen Elizabeth of England. She reigned alone until her death in 1603.
Her foreign policy included privateering, colonising Virginia and approving the start of the East India Company.
#RegnantWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EnglishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 14 Jan 1963, Sylvia Plath's only novel, 'The Bell Jar' is published in the UK under the name Victoria Lucas. It’s republished in her own name in 1967.
Bonus article on some of the, er, curious cover choices. You can probably date yourself by which cover you recognise.
https://lithub.com/15-covers-for-the-bell-jar-ranked-from-most-to-least-sexist/#LiteraryWomen #ReadMoreWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1935, Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to California.
Earhart was an aviation pioneer, and set many records before her plane was lost in the Pacific in 1937.
#WomenPilots #HistoryOfFlight #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1935, Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to California.
Earhart was an aviation pioneer, and set many records before her plane was lost in the Pacific in 1937.
#WomenPilots #HistoryOfFlight #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1935, Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to California.
Earhart was an aviation pioneer, and set many records before her plane was lost in the Pacific in 1937.
#WomenPilots #HistoryOfFlight #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1935, Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to California.
Earhart was an aviation pioneer, and set many records before her plane was lost in the Pacific in 1937.
#WomenPilots #HistoryOfFlight #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1935, Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to California.
Earhart was an aviation pioneer, and set many records before her plane was lost in the Pacific in 1937.
#WomenPilots #HistoryOfFlight #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1055, Theodora Porphyrogenita is proclaimed sole 'emperor' of the Byzantine Empire after the death of her sister Zoë. The sisters had previously ruled the empire - the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe - together.
#RegnantWomen #History #ByzantianHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 10 Jan 1917, the silent sentinels start their picketing of the US White House, demanding votes for women.
They protested six days a week until 1919, when the nineteenth amendment of the US constitution gave women the right to vote.
In practice, state restrictions on voters continued to limit some people’s right to vote.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #VotesForWomen
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#OnThisDay, 10 Jan 1917, the silent sentinels start their picketing of the US White House, demanding votes for women.
They protested six days a week until 1919, when the nineteenth amendment of the US constitution gave women the right to vote.
In practice, state restrictions on voters continued to limit some people’s right to vote.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #VotesForWomen
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#OnThisDay, 5 Jan 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as Wyoming's governor. She is the first woman in the USA to govern a State. She went on to be the first woman to run the US Mint.
#WomenInPolitics #AmericanHistory
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#OnThisDay, 3 Jan 1933, Minnie Craig is elected speaker for North Dakota's House of Representatives.
She is the first woman to be speaker in a State legislature in the USA.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInPolitics #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 2 Jan 1980, Sherry Lansing is appointed as president of production at 20th Century Fox: she is the first woman to lead a Hollywood studio.
Mary Pickford had co-owned United Artists, but not run it.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory
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#OnThisDay, 2 Jan 1969, Lorraine Hansberry's posthumous autobiographical play 'To Be Young, Gifted and Black' opens off-Broadway in New York City.
Its run inspires her friend Nina Simone to write the song of the same name.
Listen to Simone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBTk
#LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory
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#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 1983, 44 women climb the fence of Greenham Common airbase and dance on the missile silos.
The women-led Peace Camps at Greenham ran for nearly 20 years, protesting the siting of US nuclear missiles on UK soil. https://greenhamwomeneverywhere.co.uk/
Photo by Raissa Page.
#PeaceActivism #BritishHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 1818, Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' was published anonymously. Her gothic novel was also one of the first science-fiction novels.
https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15351/9780143131847 (affiliate link)
#ReadMoreWomen #LiteraryWomen
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#OnThisDay, 20 Dec 1893, around 4,000 women vote in the Māori seats in Aotearoa New Zealand. Photo is from 1908.
Until 1975, electors of Māori descent could only vote in one of the four Māori seats unless they had one Māori and one European parent.
More about the Māori seats here: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/setting-maori-seats
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 17 Dec 1905, over 22,000 people join demonstrations across Finland to demand #VotesForWomen.
The vote was won in 1906.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FinnishHistory #Histodons
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The results of the UK GE1918 weren't announced until 28 Dec but #OnThisDay, 14 Dec 1918, Constance Markievicz becomes the first woman elected to the UK parliament.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen #IrishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 14 Dec 1918, some women across the UK vote legally in parliamentary elections for the first time. It's the culmination of decades of campaigning.
Only women over 30 who held some property rights were allowed to vote, whereas all men over 21 could vote.
It was another decade until women had equal voting rights as men.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2015, Svetlana Alexievich accepts the Nobel Prize for Literature for depicting life during and after the Soviet Union through the experience of individuals.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2015/alexievich/lecture/
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2015, Tu Youyou accepts the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2015/tu/lecture/
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2014, Malala Yousafzay accepts the Nobel prize for Peace alongside Kailash Satyarthi.
Malala has been campaigning for equal access to education since she was 11, surviving a murder attempt by the Taliban.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2014/yousafzai/lecture/
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2009, Herta Müller accepts the Nobel prize for Literature.
During the Ceauşescu dictatorship in Romania, she was persecuted for refusing to work for the secret police and writing criticism of the state. She emigrated to Germany in 1987.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2009/muller/lecture/
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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2009, Ada E. Yonath – alongside Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz – accepts the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on ribosomes.
She gave her lecture on 8 December: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2009/yonath/lecture/
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