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On 1 April 1983, around 200 women dressed as teddy bears or Easter bunnies break into the Greenham Common airbase in the UK to stage a protest picnic against nuclear warfare. Greenham was due to house US nuclear missiles.
A further 40,000 protestors, men and women, form a human chain linking Greenham to #Aldermaston and Burghfield.
#WomenInHistory #PeaceProtests #BritishHistory #GreenhamCommon #History #Hisotodons
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We missed one of our favourites yesterday...
On 1 April 1983, around 200 women dressed as teddy bears or Easter bunnies break into the Greenham Common airbase in the UK to stage a protest picnic against nuclear warfare. Greenham was due to house US nuclear missiles.
A further 40,000 protestors, men and women, form a human chain linking Greenham to #Aldermaston and Burghfield.
#WomenInHistory #PeaceProtests #BritishHistory #GreenhamCommon #History #Hisotodons
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We missed one of our favourites yesterday...
On 1 April 1983, around 200 women dressed as teddy bears or Easter bunnies break into the Greenham Common airbase in the UK to stage a protest picnic against nuclear warfare. Greenham was due to house US nuclear missiles.
A further 40,000 protestors, men and women, form a human chain linking Greenham to #Aldermaston and Burghfield.
#WomenInHistory #PeaceProtests #BritishHistory #GreenhamCommon #History #Hisotodons
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#OnThisDay, 25 Jan 1890, American journalist Nellie Bly arrives back in New York, becoming the first person to circumnavigate the world in less than 80 days (she took 72). In France she had met Jules Verne, whose fictional story inspired her trip. She was so popular in the US there was a board game of her journey.
Bly had already caused a stir after her undercover reporting from an asylum.
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#OnThisDay, 27 Mar 1997, Pamela Gordon becomes the first woman to be Premier of Bermuda, after winning a party leadership election. Her party, the United Bermuda Party, was centre-right.
#WomenInHistory #WomenInPolitics #WomensHistoryMonth #History #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 14 Mar 2018, Angela Merkel is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany for the fourth time. #WomenInPolitics
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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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#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, 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, 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, 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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“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.“
#OnThisDay, 7 Dec 1993, Toni Morrison gives her Nobel lecture, part of her acceptance of the Nobel prize in literature.
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#OnThisDay, 21 June 1913, Georgia 'Tiny' Broadwick becomes the first woman to parachute from an airplane. She goes on to complete the first known premeditated freefall by anyone at all whilst training WW1 pilots on how to jump from planes.
Read more, and see one of her parachutes, at the Air and Space Museum. https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/georgia-%E2%80%9Ctiny%E2%80%9D-broadwicks-parachute
#WomenInHistory #Histodons #HistoryOfFlight #Parachutes @histodons
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#OnThisDay, 7 Mar 1838, Jenny Lind makes her stage debut in Sweden. She became a global star, but no recordings seem to survive.
A fictional version of Lind appears in The Greatest Showman musical. -
#OnThisDay, 1 April 1983, around 200 women dressed as teddy bears or Easter bunnies break into the Greenham Common airbase in the UK to stage a protest picnic against nuclear warfare. Greenham was due to house US nuclear missiles.
A further 40,000 protestors, men and women, form a human chain linking Greenham to #Aldermaston and Burghfield.
#WomenInHistory #PeaceProtests #BritishHistory #GreenhamCommon #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 1979, the first National Black Women’s Conference started in Brixton, London, arranged by the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD). Over 300 women attended.
OWAAD was founded by Stella Dadzie and Olive Morris in 1978 to bring a black feminist perspective to political action.
Morris died in July 1979 of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In 2024, she was recognised for her work with a blue plaque.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #London #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, 24 Aug 1896, an unknown woman cyclist has a beer at the bar in New Jersey - making headlines in the New York Times.
Chapeau!
#WomenInHistory #Histodons #Cycling #WomenCycling #AmericanHistory #ThrowbackThursday
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#OnThisDay, 19 Jan 1953, American actress Lucille Ball gets more viewers for an episode of her sitcom, I Love Lucy, than watch the inauguration of the US President Eisenhower the following day.
‘Lucy Goes to the Hospital' got a 71.9% audience share with 44 million viewers. Eisenhower's inauguration got 29 million.
#WomenInHistory #AmericanHistory #History #TelevisionHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 19 Jan 1953, American actress Lucille Ball gets more viewers for an episode of her sitcom, I Love Lucy, than watch the inauguration of the US President Eisenhower the following day.
‘Lucy Goes to the Hospital' got a 71.9% audience share with 44 million viewers. Eisenhower's inauguration got 29 million.
#WomenInHistory #AmericanHistory #History #TelevisionHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 14 Jun 1939, Ethel Waters stars in The Ethel Waters Show on NBC, becoming the first black person to have their own show on US TV. The one-hour variety show was a test of the tech.
[photo is from her radio show around the same time]
#WomenInHistory #Histodons #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #TelevisionHistory
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#OnThisDay, 19 Jan 1953, American actress Lucille Ball gets more viewers for an episode of her sitcom, I Love Lucy, than watch the inauguration of the US President Eisenhower the following day.
‘Lucy Goes to the Hospital', an episode in which her character gives birth, got a 71.9% audience share.
#WomenInHistory #AmericanHistory #History #TelevisionHistory
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#OnThisDay, 1 Apr 1792, former spy Etta Palm-Aelders speaks to the revolutionary French parliament.
Her demands?
The right for women to be admitted to civilian and military positions.
The education of girls to be based on the same principles as those of boys.
That women could become adults at the age of 21, and could get divorced.
Her demands were refused.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FrenchHistory #LibertéÉgalitéFraternité #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 1 Apr 1792, former spy Etta Palm-Aelders speaks to the revolutionary French parliament, demanding the right for women to be admitted to civilian and military positions, that the education of girls be based on the same principles as those of boys, that women could become adults at the age of 21, and could get divorced.
Her demands are refused.
#WomenInHistory #FrenchHistory #Histodons #LibertéÉgalitéFraternité
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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 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 1983, 44 women climb over the fence of Greenham Common airbase and dance on the nuclear missile silos.
[photo by Raissa Page ]
#WomenInHistory #Histodons #PeaceActivism #BritishHistory -
#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 1983, 44 women climb the fence of Greenham Common airbase and dance on the nuclear missile silos.
[photo by Raissa Page ]
#WomenInHistory #Histodons #PeaceActivism