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#OnThisDay, 5 Feb 1919, Mary Pickford co-founds United Artists in Hollywood. The production company was an attempt by actors and directors to control their own work rather than being owned by a studio.
#ReclaimTheFrame #HollywoodHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 25 Nov 1741 (OS), Tsarevna Elizabeth Petrovna seized power over the Russian Empire in a Palace coup.
She was crowned Elizabeth I the following year and remained Empress of Russia till her death in 1762. She had a policy of not executing people.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #RussianHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 28 June 1762, Russian Empress consort Catherine forced her husband Peter III to abdicate in her favour. She was crowned Catherine II (aka the Great) in September 1762.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #RussianHistory
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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
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#OnThisDay, 25 Nov 1741 (OS), Tsarevna Elizabeth Petrovna seized power over the Russian Empire in a Palace coup.
She was crowned Elizabeth I the following year and remained Empress of Russia till her death in 1762. She had a policy of not executing people.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #RussianHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 28 June 1762, Russian Empress consort Catherine forced her husband Peter III to abdicate in her favour. She was crowned Catherine II (aka the Great) in September 1762.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #RussianHistory #RegnantWomen
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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 Emperors and Empresses, she could be cruel, vindictive and abuse her power.
*Old Style date
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #RussianHistory
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#OnThisDay, 9 Jun 1909, Alice Huyler Ramsey and three companions set off on the first all-woman drive across the United States.
#WomenInHistory #Histodons #AutomobileHistory #AmericanHistory
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#OnThisDay, 20 Mar 1985, Libby Riddles is the first woman to win the 1,100-mile trans-Alaska #Iditarod dog sled race.
Watch a contemporary news report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P9_48VLB0I
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 20 Mar 1985, Libby Riddles is the first woman to win the 1,100-mile trans-Alaska #Iditarod dog sled race.
Watch a contemporary news report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P9_48VLB0I
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 21 Apr 1944, the provisional government of France signs into law universal suffrage, granting women the vote.
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#OnThisDay, 11 Apr 1913, the Nevill Pavilion in Tunbridge Wells, UK, is destroyed by arson. No-one is injured. Suffragettes are suspected of starting the fire because their leaflets are found nearby, but no-one is ever caught.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 10 Mar 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson attacks, with a meat cleaver, Velázquez's painting of Venus in the National Gallery in London in protest at the treatment of Emmeline Pankhurst.
Suffragette attacks on art were common enough for Punch to do a cartoon of it.
#VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #BritishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 9 Mar 1906, British suffragettes Flora Drummond and Annie Kenney repeatedly knock on the door of Number 10 Downing Street during a protest.
They were basically playing 'knock down ginger' on the Prime Minister. And were arrested for it.
#WomenInHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 13 Feb 1907, around 15 suffragettes rush into the lobby of the House of Commons in London: around 60 more are arrested outside.
The picture shows their release the next day.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
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Mud, glorious mud!
#OnThisDay, 9 Feb 1907, around 3,000 people take part in the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies' march through London, demanding the vote.
The weather was dreadful, hence its nickname of “the Mud March”.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 7 Feb 1971, women in Switzerland win the right to vote in federal elections after a national referendum. One canton continued to deny women the vote until a court case in 1990.
Snail pic is from a suffrage protest in 1928 which was complaining about the slow progress towards #VotesForWomen.
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#OnThisDay, 6 Feb 1918, the Representation of the People Act receives royal assent, allowing some women in the UK the right to vote in general elections.
All men over 21 were able to vote for the first time, but only women over 30 who met some property requirements could join them at the ballot box.
Full enfranchisement came in 1928.
Listen to the Sheffield Street Choirs sing 'Nana was a Suffragette': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KklWkhG748
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#OnThisDay, 31 Jan 1945, women in Italy gained the right to vote in general as well as local elections.
Women voted in Italian general elections for the first time in 1946.
There's a marvelous photo over on getty showing an 82 year old woman being helped to vote for the first time in 1946.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #ItalianHistory #Histodons
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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, 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, 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, 6 Dec 1934, the Turkish Parliament voted to allow all women over 22 the vote, and women over 30 the right to stand in elections.
The first women were elected the following year.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #TurkishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 26 Nov 1867, Lily Maxwell voted in Chorlton-upon-Medlock’s Town Hall, Manchester.
It was one of the first recorded instances of a woman voting for an MP in the UK.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 18 Nov 1910, 119 people are arrested whilst protesting for the right for women to vote in the UK.
The protest becomes known as Black Friday for the violence, including sexual assault, by the Met police and other men towards the 300 women protestors.
Calls for a public inquiry into the abuse were rejected by the Home Secretary, Winston Churchill.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 14 Nov 1917, US suffragists held at the Occoquan Workhouse are assaulted by the guards, at the order of the supervisor. The “Night of Terror” galvanises support for the women.
In March 1918, the DC Court of Appeals declares that the suffragist arrests had been unconstitutional.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons