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#OnThisDay, 21 May 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman - and only the second person - to fly solo and without stops across the Atlantic.
She lands unexpectedly in a field in Ireland. There’s some wonderful images of her in the nearest village here: https://joecampbellart.com/2015/03/12/amelia-earhart-in-ireland-solo-atlantic-crossing-may-21st-1932/
Watch newsreel of her taking off here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-itPeJOyzI
#WomenInHistory #Histodons #HistoryOfFlight #WomenPilots @histodons
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#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1935, Amelia Earhart lands in California, becoming the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to California.
#WomenInHistory #WomenPilots #History #HistoryOfFlight #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 25 Apr 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro becomes the first woman to be elected President of Nicaragua. She served for six years, stabilising the economy.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CentralAmericanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 25 Apr 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro becomes the first woman to be elected President of Nicaragua. She served for six years, stabilising the economy.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CentralAmericanHistory
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#OnThisDay, 15 Nov 1982, at least 11 women* from the Greenham Common Peace Camp in the UK are sent to prison. They had refused to be bound over to keep the peace after occupying a sentry box on the US base.
*some sources say 23, others 11.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #ColdWarHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 15 Nov 1982, at least 11 women* from the Greenham Common Peace Camp in the UK are sent to prison. They had refused to be bound over to keep the peace after occupying a sentry box on the US base.
*some sources say 23, others 11.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #ColdWarHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 22 March 1982, around 250 women blockade the Greenham Common airbase in the UK preventing entry. 34 are arrested.
It was the first mass non-violent protest by the Greenham Common peace women. The peace camp was established in 1981 and lasted until 2000. Their aim was to stop the siting of US nuclear missiles in the UK.
Greenham airbase is now used as a film set.
Photo (c) Paula Allen
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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, 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, 3 Nov 1914, American Mary Phelps Jacob is granted a US patent for the brassiere.
Here's a brief thread on her life. 👇
Born to descendants of founding families, Jacob had a gilded life until WW1. To manage his PTSD, her first husband turned to alcohol, gambling and following fire engines so he could watch buildings burn.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #FashionHistory #Histodons
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The #WomensPrize is announced tomorrow evening. The UK charity's mission is to change the world through books by women.
UK readers can explore this year's long lists in our UK bookshop dot org shop*
Non-fiction: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/research-with-the-2025-women-s-prize-for-non-fiction-longlist
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If you're in the UK, you can now buy books from our bookshop!
Buy a book this weekend and 10% will go towards the #WomensPrize Trust to celebrate #InternationalWomensDay. And every sale supports indie bookshops, and us!
We've just added their 2025 longlists to our shop. We've not read all the books on them. Yet.
Our shop is here: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/CarveHerName
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“I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.”
#OnThisDay, 19 Aug 1588*, Queen Elizabeth I of England addresses the troops at Tilbury as they prepare to defend England against the Spanish Armada.Her reported speech is best seen as propaganda establishing her as a symbolic Britannia. https://www.elizabethfiles.com/the-spanish-armada-8-elizabeths-tilbury-speech/4065/
*date converted from OS calendar
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #TudorHistory #EnglishHistory #Histodons
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“I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.”
#OnThisDay, 19 Aug 1588*, Queen Elizabeth I of England addresses the troops at Tilbury as they prepare to defend England against the Spanish Armada.
Her reported speech is best seen as propaganda establishing her as a symbolic Britannia. https://www.elizabethfiles.com/the-spanish-armada-8-elizabeths-tilbury-speech/4065/
#WomenInHistory #TudorHistory #EnglishHistory #Elizabethan
*date converted from OS calendar
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#OnThisDay, 1 Feb 1587, Queen Elizabeth I of England signs the death warrant of her first cousin once removed Mary, Queen of Scotland.
Despite what movies and plays would have you believe, the neighbouring queens had never met.
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#OnTheDay, 21 Feb 1866, Lucy Hobbs Taylor graduates from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery. She is the first woman in the US to graduate from dental school.
#WomenInMedicine #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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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 #WomenInMedicine #Histodons #AmericanHistory
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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
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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 patients.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory
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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
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#OnTheDay, 21 Feb 1866, Lucy Hobbs Taylor graduates from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery. She is the first woman in the US to graduate from dental school.
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#OnThisDay, 26 Jan 1961, Dr Janet Travell is appointed as the Physician to the President of the USA. The role includes being the director of the White House Medical Unit. Travell was the first woman to hold the post.
She specialised in the treatment of skeletal muscle pain, and developed the ice spray still in use in sports medicine today.
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#OnThisDay, 11 May 1978, Margaret Brewer becomes the first woman to reach the rank of General in the US Marines.
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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, 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 #Histodons #FrenchHistory #RevolutionaryWomen
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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, 8 Oct 1952, USAF 2nd Lt Nurse Abbie Sweetwine uses military triage in a civilian disaster, the Harrow and Wealdstone train crash in London. She saves lives and paves the way for the UK’s use of paramedics. The British press dub her "the angel of platform 6".
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #BritishHistory #AmericanHistory #LondonHistory
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#OnThisDay, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected their tradition of abstention in order to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974.
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#OnThisDay, 5 Mar 1992, Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz becomes President of the National Bank of Poland. She is the first woman to hold the role.
She goes on to be the first woman to be elected Mayor of Warsaw and is currently a member of the European Parliament.
Thank you to https://mstdn.social/@[email protected]al for suggesting Hanna.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #PolishHistory #Histodons