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#OnThisDay, 23 Oct 1915, 20,000+ women march in a 5 mile long parade through New York City, USA, demanding the right to vote.
There is no record of African-American women being invited to join the march.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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Love is like an itchin' in my heart...
#OnThisDay, 22 Oct 1966, The Supremes become the first all-woman group to get to no 1 in the US Billboard album charts with The Supremes A' Go-Go.
Listen to their version of Get Ready: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD_7_MhgHhc
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory #PopHistory #Histodons
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Love is like an itchin' in my heart...
#OnThisDay, 22 Oct 1966, The Supremes become the first all-woman group to get to no 1 in the US Billboard album charts with The Supremes A' Go-Go.
Listen to their version of Get Ready: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD_7_MhgHhc
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory #PopHistory #Histodons
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Love is like an itchin' in my heart...
#OnThisDay, 22 Oct 1966, The Supremes become the first all-woman group to get to no 1 in the US Billboard album charts with The Supremes A' Go-Go.
Listen to their version of Get Ready: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD_7_MhgHhc
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory #PopHistory #Histodons
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Love is like an itchin' in my heart...
#OnThisDay, 22 Oct 1966, The Supremes become the first all-woman group to get to no 1 in the US Billboard album charts with The Supremes A' Go-Go.
Listen to their version of Get Ready: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD_7_MhgHhc
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory #PopHistory #Histodons
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Love is like an itchin' in my heart...
#OnThisDay, 22 Oct 1966, The Supremes become the first all-woman group to get to no 1 in the US Billboard album charts with The Supremes A' Go-Go.
Listen to their version of Get Ready: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD_7_MhgHhc
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory #PopHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 20 Oct 1917, US suffragist Alice Paul is arrested at the silent sentinels picket of the White House.
Two days later she is sentenced to 7 months in the notorious Occoquan workhouse. At the start of November, Paul and fellow suffrage campaigner Rose Winslow go on hunger strike and are force fed. A week after that, Paul is sent to the psychiatric ward in an attempt to discredit her.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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To mark #WorldFoodDay 10% of all @bookshop_org_uk sales between 16 and 19 October will go to Bookbanks.
Bookbanks is an org that gets books to people accessing foodbanks.
Support indie bookshops, and help get books into foodbanks: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/CarveHerName *
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#OnThisDay, 16 Oct 2012, Hilary Mantel becomes the first person to win the Booker prize twice when 'Bring Up the Bodies' wins.
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#OnThisDay, 13 Oct 1975, Te Rarawa leader Whina Cooper brings around 5,000 marchers to the New Zealand Parliament to present a petition signed by 60,000 people protesting ongoing Māori land alienation.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory #Histodons
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Last chance to celebrate #BookshopDay!
Buy a book by the end of 12 Oct and you could win a £250 Bookshop.org digital gift card. Every sale supports independent bookshops: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/CarveHerName
(UK only, affiliate link, e-books DO count!)
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Celebrate #BookshopDay with us!
You could win a £250 Bookshop.org digital gift card when you snap up a book with us between 10 and 12 October.
Every sale supports independent bookshops: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/CarveHerName*
(*affiliate link, UK only, includes eBooks!)
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#OnThisDay, 6 Oct 2009, Hilary Mantel wins the Booker prize for the first time with her historical novel 'Wolf Hall'. She was one of five people to have won the award twice.
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#OnThisDay, 6 Oct 1911, Beatrix de Rijk becomes the first Dutch woman to hold a pilot's license.
Her demonstration flights across Europe led to a form of sponsorship from French fashion houses and to perfumes named after her.
At the outbreak of WW1, she offered her pilot services to both the French and Dutch governments. They both turned her down.
#WomenInHistory #FurtherHigherFaster #WomenInAviation #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 6 Oct 1911, Beatrix de Rijk becomes the first Dutch woman to hold a pilot's license.
Her demonstration flights across Europe led to a form of sponsorship from French fashion houses and to perfumes named after her.
At the outbreak of WW1, she offered her pilot services to both the French and Dutch governments. They both turned her down.
#WomenInHistory #FurtherHigherFaster #WomenInAviation #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 6 Oct 1911, Beatrix de Rijk becomes the first Dutch woman to hold a pilot's license.
Her demonstration flights across Europe led to a form of sponsorship from French fashion houses and to perfumes named after her.
At the outbreak of WW1, she offered her pilot services to both the French and Dutch governments. They both turned her down.
#WomenInHistory #FurtherHigherFaster #WomenInAviation #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 6 Oct 1911, Beatrix de Rijk becomes the first Dutch woman to hold a pilot's license.
Her demonstration flights across Europe led to a form of sponsorship from French fashion houses and to perfumes named after her.
At the outbreak of WW1, she offered her pilot services to both the French and Dutch governments. They both turned her down.
#WomenInHistory #FurtherHigherFaster #WomenInAviation #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 6 Oct 1911, Beatrix de Rijk becomes the first Dutch woman to hold a pilot's license.
Her demonstration flights across Europe led to a form of sponsorship from French fashion houses and to perfumes named after her.
At the outbreak of WW1, she offered her pilot services to both the French and Dutch governments. They both turned her down.
#WomenInHistory #FurtherHigherFaster #WomenInAviation #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 5 Oct 1789, thousands of women instigate and lead the March on Versailles.
They - along with revolutionaries who join them - besiege the Palace to demand cheap bread. The march is considered to have an impact on a par with the fall of the Bastille in terms of the French Revolution.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FrenchHistory #RevolutionaryWomen #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 25 Sept 1951, 87 women meet at the first Te Rōpū Wāhine Māori Toko I te Ora (conference for the Māori Women’s Welfare League) in Aotearoa (New Zealand).
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 25 Aug 1932, Amelia Earhart successfully lands in Newark, New Jersey, to become the first woman to fly solo across the USA.
Earhart records a series of first flights by a woman, before disappearing during an attempt to fly around the world in 1937.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WomenPilots #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 25 Aug 1804, Alicia Meynell (aka Alicia Thornton) races at York races in England. Side-saddle.
She is now recognised as the first woman racing jockey.
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#OnThisDay, 11 Aug 1942 Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil receive a patent for their radio guidance system – the tech that now underpins wifi.
Learn more about Hedy's remarkable life here: https://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/youmustrememberthispodcastblog/2015/1/14/star-wars-episode-iii-hedy-lamarr-ymrt-29
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #HollywoodHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 8 Aug 1995, Farida Sultana and seven other women agree to establish a culturally specialist support service for Asian, Middle Eastern and African women in violent and abusive situations in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Shakti organisation started providing services a few weeks later. Read more: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/farida-sultana
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#OnThisDay, 1 Aug 1980, Vigdis Finnbogadóttir is the first woman to be sworn in as the President of Iceland.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInPolitics
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#OnThisDay, 23 July 1999, Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to command a Space Shuttle. She went on to command Discovery on the first test flight of a Shuttle after the Columbia disaster.
Watch the lift-off: https://youtu.be/AfqIzfH7r2Y
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSpace #SpaceHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 13 Jul 1793, Charlotte Corday assassinates Jean-Paul Marat. She hopes to change the course of the French Revolutionary Republic for the better.
She doesn't.
The painting was done in the hours before her execution by guillotine on 17 July.
#FrenchHistory #WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 5 July 1957, Althea Gibson becomes the first Black person to win a #Wimbledon Singles tennis trophy.
Blogpost by Moira from 2019:
https://illustratedwomeninhistory.com/althea-gibson/Newsreel: https://youtu.be/2EJCqBsh2Dk?t=1m15s
Listen to her being interviewed here (dead bird link)
https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1412427791396659204#BlackHistory #TennisHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 5 July 1957, Althea Gibson becomes the first Black person to win a #Wimbledon Singles tennis trophy.
Blogpost by Moira from 2019:
https://illustratedwomeninhistory.com/althea-gibson/Newsreel: https://youtu.be/2EJCqBsh2Dk?t=1m15s
Listen to her being interviewed here (dead bird link)
https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1412427791396659204#BlackHistory #TennisHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 5 July 1957, Althea Gibson becomes the first Black person to win a #Wimbledon Singles tennis trophy.
Blogpost by Moira from 2019:
https://illustratedwomeninhistory.com/althea-gibson/Newsreel: https://youtu.be/2EJCqBsh2Dk?t=1m15s
Listen to her being interviewed here (dead bird link)
https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1412427791396659204#BlackHistory #TennisHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons