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  1. , 15 May 1946, Camilla Williams makes her operatic debut as Cio-Cio San with the New York City Opera. She is the first Black woman to sign a contract with a major US opera company.

    Read more: carvehername.org.uk/eight-famo

  2. #OnThisDay, 15 May 1946, Camilla Williams makes her operatic debut as Cio-Cio San with the New York City Opera. She is the first Black woman to sign a contract with a major US opera company.

    Read more: carvehername.org.uk/eight-famo

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons

  3. #OnThisDay, 15 May 1946, Camilla Williams makes her operatic debut as Cio-Cio San with the New York City Opera. She is the first Black woman to sign a contract with a major US opera company.

    Read more: carvehername.org.uk/eight-famo

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons

  4. #OnThisDay, 15 May 1946, Camilla Williams makes her operatic debut as Cio-Cio San with the New York City Opera. She is the first Black woman to sign a contract with a major US opera company.

    Read more: carvehername.org.uk/eight-famo

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons

  5. #OnThisDay, 15 May 1946, Camilla Williams makes her operatic debut as Cio-Cio San with the New York City Opera. She is the first Black woman to sign a contract with a major US opera company.

    Read more: carvehername.org.uk/eight-famo

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons

  6. #OnThisDay, 23 Apr 2015, Loretta Lynch is confirmed as Attorney General of the US – the first Black woman to hold the post. It's exactly 143 years after Charlotte E Ray became the first Black woman lawyer in the US.

    Read more: carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

  7. #OnThisDay, 23 Apr 1872, Charlotte E Ray was admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia (USA). She is the first Black woman to be certified as a lawyer in the USA.

    Read more: carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory #WomensHistory #Histodons

  8. #OnThisDay, 22 March 1982, around 250 people blockade Greenham Common airbase in the UK. 34 are arrested. It was the first mass non-violent protest by the Greenham Common peace women.

    Photo: Paula Allen.

    Read more: carvehername.org.uk/greenham-w

    #WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistoryMonth #BritishHistory #Histodons

  9. #SayHerName hashtag is for BLACK WOMEN.

    for white women murdered by fascists the correct hashtag is:

    #CarveHerName

    if you need to know why, look it up, but stop appropriating, just because it is us whites on the wrong end for once.

    we have centuries of abuse to make up for.

  10. #SayHerName hashtag is for BLACK WOMEN.

    for white women murdered by fascists the correct hashtag is:

    #CarveHerName

    if you need to know why, look it up, but stop appropriating, just because it is us whites on the wrong end for once.

    we have centuries of abuse to make up for.

  11. #SayHerName hashtag is for BLACK WOMEN.

    for white women murdered by fascists the correct hashtag is:

    #CarveHerName

    if you need to know why, look it up, but stop appropriating, just because it is us whites on the wrong end for once.

    we have centuries of abuse to make up for.

  12. #SayHerName hashtag is for BLACK WOMEN.

    for white women murdered by fascists the correct hashtag is:

    #CarveHerName

    if you need to know why, look it up, but stop appropriating, just because it is us whites on the wrong end for once.

    we have centuries of abuse to make up for.

  13. #OnThisDay, 3 Jan 1985, Leontyne Price gives her final operatic stage performance, as Aida at the New York Met.

    Price was the first African American to be given a leading role at La Scala, and has 19 Grammy awards.

    Read more about famous opera singers like Price: carvehername.org.uk/eight-famo

    Watch a song from her farewell performance: youtube.com/watch?v=74HvM1lDUdw

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenOnStage #AmericanHistory #Histodons

  14. #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".

    Read more on our blog: carvehername.org.uk/abbie-swee

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #BritishHistory #AmericanHistory #LondonHistory #Histodons

  15. , 1 Oct 1553, Mary Tudor is crowned Queen of England: the first queen of England to get as far as a coronation and to rule in her own name.

    During her reign, 280 religious dissenters were burned at the stake by her order, earning her the nickname ‘bloody Mary’ by her Protestant opponents.

    We’ve written about her predecessor and why Mary may have signed her death warrant: carvehername.org.uk/lady-jane-

  16. #OnThisDay, 1 Oct 1553, Mary Tudor is crowned Queen of England: the first queen of England to get as far as a coronation and to rule in her own name.

    During her reign, 280 religious dissenters were burned at the stake by her order, earning her the nickname ‘bloody Mary’ by her Protestant opponents.

    We’ve written about her predecessor and why Mary may have signed her death warrant: carvehername.org.uk/lady-jane-

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EnglishHistory #Tudors #Histodons

  17. #OnThisDay, 1 Oct 1553, Mary Tudor is crowned Queen of England: the first queen of England to get as far as a coronation and to rule in her own name.

    During her reign, 280 religious dissenters were burned at the stake by her order, earning her the nickname ‘bloody Mary’ by her Protestant opponents.

    We’ve written about her predecessor and why Mary may have signed her death warrant: carvehername.org.uk/lady-jane-

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EnglishHistory #Tudors #Histodons

  18. #OnThisDay, 1 Oct 1553, Mary Tudor is crowned Queen of England: the first queen of England to get as far as a coronation and to rule in her own name.

    During her reign, 280 religious dissenters were burned at the stake by her order, earning her the nickname ‘bloody Mary’ by her Protestant opponents.

    We’ve written about her predecessor and why Mary may have signed her death warrant: carvehername.org.uk/lady-jane-

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EnglishHistory #Tudors #Histodons

  19. #OnThisDay, 1 Oct 1553, Mary Tudor is crowned Queen of England: the first queen of England to get as far as a coronation and to rule in her own name.

    During her reign, 280 religious dissenters were burned at the stake by her order, earning her the nickname ‘bloody Mary’ by her Protestant opponents.

    We’ve written about her predecessor and why Mary may have signed her death warrant: carvehername.org.uk/lady-jane-

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EnglishHistory #Tudors #Histodons

  20. @CarveHerName Here’s some background on the #FieldsMedal , named after mathematics professor John Charles Fields who is buried on the campus of #McMasterU in Hamilton, #Canada. sitnews.us/MacDougall/082806_m

    Was there a particular woman in #science who spurred the animosity between chemist Alfred #Nobel and Fields’ Swedish friend and fellow mathematics professor Gösta Mittag-Leffler that indirectly led to the Fields Medal itself? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gösta_