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#OnThisDay, 30 May 2012, Madeline Miller wins the Orange Prize (now the Baileys Prize) with her debut novel The Song of Achilles. It is a retelling of the Iliad from the perspective of Patroclus.
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#OnThisDay, 30 May 1899, Pearl Hart (and Joe Boot) hold up a stagecoach in Arizona: it's one of just two recorded instances of a woman holding up a coach in the US.
#AmericanHistory #ArizonaHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 24 May 1976, at least 400 women walk out on strike at the Trica factory in London, demanding equal pay with their male colleagues. Around 100 men come out on strike in support of the women.
The strike lasts 21 weeks before the American owners of the factory agree to all demands.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #TradeUnionHistory #Histodons
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“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
#OnThisDay, 19 May 1952, Lillian Hellman writes to the House of UnAmerican Activities refusing to testify against others.
In the 1940s, Hellman had been twice nominated for an Academy Award for her screenplays. As a result of refusing to testify about others to HUAC, she was blacklisted by Hollywood.
#HollywoodHistory #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 18 May 1893, Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia spoke at the Kotahitanga (Māori parliament) in Aotearoa (New Zealand). She was the first woman to address the Kotahitanga, and called for Māori women to have the vote and to be members of the parliament.
#AotearoaHistory #NZHistory #VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 17 May 1988, Dr Patricia Bath was awarded the first of her three patents on the methods and equipment for laser cataract removal.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 17 May 1988, Dr Patricia Bath was awarded the first of her three patents on the methods and equipment for laser cataract removal.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 17 May 1988, Dr Patricia Bath was awarded the first of her three patents on the methods and equipment for laser cataract removal.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 17 May 1988, Dr Patricia Bath was awarded the first of her three patents on the methods and equipment for laser cataract removal.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 17 May 1988, Dr Patricia Bath was awarded the first of her three patents on the methods and equipment for laser cataract removal.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons
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17 May is Día das Letras Galegas (Galician Literature Day).
#OnThisDay, 17 May 1863, María Rosalía Rita de Castro's poetry is published. It’s the first publication by a single author in Galician for 400 years. The public holiday was introduced to celebrate the centenary of Rosalia de Castro's work.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Galicia #LiteraryWomen #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 15 May 1991, Edith Cresson is appointed Prime Minister of France. She is the first woman to hold the post.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FrenchHistory #Histodons
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“Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence.”
#OnThisDay, 14 May 1925, Virginia Woolf publishes Mrs Dalloway.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #LiteraryWomen #Histodons(Affiliate link: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15351/9781784870867)
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#OnThisDay, 12 May 1743, Maria Theresa Habsburg is crowned Queen of Bohemia and consolidates her position as the ruler of the Austrian empire. The Seven Year War was promoted by rival claims to the empire, and she worked to elevate her husband to be Holy Roman Emperor. After his death she co-ruled with her son.
She sponsored trials of smallpox inoculation, having lost three of her children to the disease.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AustrianHistory #RegnantWomen #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 12 May 1743, Maria Theresa Habsburg is crowned Queen of Bohemia and consolidates her position as the ruler of the Austrian empire. The Seven Year War was promoted by rival claims to the empire, and she worked to elevate her husband to be Holy Roman Emperor. After his death she co-ruled with her son.
She sponsored trials of smallpox inoculation, having lost three of her children to the disease.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AustrianHistory #RegnantWomen #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 12 May 1743, Maria Theresa Habsburg is crowned Queen of Bohemia and consolidates her position as the ruler of the Austrian empire. The Seven Year War was promoted by rival claims to the empire, and she worked to elevate her husband to be Holy Roman Emperor. After his death she co-ruled with her son.
She sponsored trials of smallpox inoculation, having lost three of her children to the disease.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AustrianHistory #RegnantWomen #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 12 May 1743, Maria Theresa Habsburg is crowned Queen of Bohemia and consolidates her position as the ruler of the Austrian empire. The Seven Year War was promoted by rival claims to the empire, and she worked to elevate her husband to be Holy Roman Emperor. After his death she co-ruled with her son.
She sponsored trials of smallpox inoculation, having lost three of her children to the disease.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AustrianHistory #RegnantWomen #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 12 May 1743, Maria Theresa Habsburg is crowned Queen of Bohemia and consolidates her position as the ruler of the Austrian empire. The Seven Year War was promoted by rival claims to the empire, and she worked to elevate her husband to be Holy Roman Emperor. After his death she co-ruled with her son.
She sponsored trials of smallpox inoculation, having lost three of her children to the disease.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AustrianHistory #RegnantWomen #Histodons
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“I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as much as a man, I have a right to have as much as a man.”
#OnThisDay, 9 May 1867, Sojourner Truth addresses the American Equal Rights Association, arguing for equal rights for Black women.
Read a brief history of Truth’s life: https://wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-divided/antebellum/sojourner-truth/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EqualRights #BlackAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 8 May 1865, Dr Mary Harris Thompson founds the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children. At the time one of the city's two existing hospitals did not admit women as patients.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 8 May 1865, Dr Mary Harris Thompson founds the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children. At the time one of the city's two existing hospitals did not admit women as patients.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 8 May 1865, Dr Mary Harris Thompson founds the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children. At the time one of the city's two existing hospitals did not admit women as patients.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 8 May 1865, Dr Mary Harris Thompson founds the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children. At the time one of the city's two existing hospitals did not admit women as patients.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 8 May 1865, Dr Mary Harris Thompson founds the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children. At the time one of the city's two existing hospitals did not admit women as patients.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 5 May 1938, Dorothy Anderson presents her medical research that identified cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the American Pediatric Association.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #CysticFibrosis #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 5 May 1938, Dorothy Anderson presents her medical research that identified cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the American Pediatric Association.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #CysticFibrosis #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 5 May 1938, Dorothy Anderson presents her medical research that identified cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the American Pediatric Association.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #CysticFibrosis #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 5 May 1938, Dorothy Anderson presents her medical research that identified cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the American Pediatric Association.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #CysticFibrosis #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 5 May 1938, Dorothy Anderson presents her medical research that identified cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the American Pediatric Association.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #CysticFibrosis #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 28 April 1730 OS*, Anna Ivanovna is crowned the Empress of the Russian Empire.
The Privy Council picked Anna as she was widowed and childless. They imposed a set of Conditions through which they would control her.
She literally tore them up, and continued her uncle Peter the Great’s modernisation.
Like many Russian rulers, she could be cruel, vindictive and abuse her power.
*Old Style date
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #RussianHistory