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  1. , 16 May 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei reaches the summit of Everest. She is the first woman to make it to the peak of the world's highest mountain.

  2. #OnThisDay, 16 May 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei reaches the summit of Everest. She is the first woman to make it to the peak of the world's highest mountain.

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

  3. #OnThisDay, 16 May 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei reaches the summit of Everest. She is the first woman to make it to the peak of the world's highest mountain.

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

  4. #OnThisDay, 16 May 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei reaches the summit of Everest. She is the first woman to make it to the peak of the world's highest mountain.

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

  5. , 15 May 1991, Edith Cresson is appointed Prime Minister of France. She is the first woman to hold the post.

  6. , 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

  7. #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

  8. #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

  9. #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

  10. #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

  11. #OnThisDay, 14 May 1943, Vera Leigh returns to France to work as a courier for the British Special Operations Executive.

    A fashion designer, Leigh had fled France in 1942 after running escape lines for Allied airmen.

    After her return, Leigh carried documents and equipment such as guns and explosives around her network's area. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was executed at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

  12. , 14 May 1943, Vera Leigh returns to France to work as a courier for the British Special Operations Executive.

    A fashion designer, Leigh had fled France in 1942 after running escape lines for Allied airmen.

    After her return, Leigh carried documents and equipment such as guns and explosives around her network's area. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was executed at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.

  13. #OnThisDay, 14 May 1943, Vera Leigh returns to France to work as a courier for the British Special Operations Executive.

    A fashion designer, Leigh had fled France in 1942 after running escape lines for Allied airmen.

    After her return, Leigh carried documents and equipment such as guns and explosives around her network's area. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was executed at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

  14. #OnThisDay, 14 May 1943, Vera Leigh returns to France to work as a courier for the British Special Operations Executive.

    A fashion designer, Leigh had fled France in 1942 after running escape lines for Allied airmen.

    After her return, Leigh carried documents and equipment such as guns and explosives around her network's area. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was executed at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

  15. #OnThisDay, 14 May 1943, Vera Leigh returns to France to work as a courier for the British Special Operations Executive.

    A fashion designer, Leigh had fled France in 1942 after running escape lines for Allied airmen.

    After her return, Leigh carried documents and equipment such as guns and explosives around her network's area. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was executed at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

  16. “Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence.”

    , 14 May 1925, Virginia Woolf publishes Mrs Dalloway.

    (Affiliate link: uk.bookshop.org/a/15351/978178)

  17. #OnThisDay, 13 May 1995, Alison Hargreaves becomes the first woman to scale Everest without supplemental oxygen or sherpa guides.

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

  18. , 13 May 1995, Alison Hargreaves becomes the first woman to scale Everest without supplemental oxygen or sherpa guides.

  19. #OnThisDay, 13 May 1995, Alison Hargreaves becomes the first woman to scale Everest without supplemental oxygen or sherpa guides.

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

  20. #OnThisDay, 13 May 1995, Alison Hargreaves becomes the first woman to scale Everest without supplemental oxygen or sherpa guides.

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

  21. #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

  22. , 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.

  23. #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

  24. #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

  25. , 11 May 1978, Margaret Brewer becomes the first woman to reach the rank of General in the US Marines.

  26. #OnThisDay, 9 May 1922, the International Astronomical Union formally adopts Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system. The principles in it still underpin modern classification.

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Astronomy #WomenInSTEM #AmericanHistory #Histodons

  27. , 9 May 1922, the International Astronomical Union formally adopts Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system. The principles in it still underpin modern classification.

  28. #OnThisDay, 9 May 1922, the International Astronomical Union formally adopts Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system. The principles in it still underpin modern classification.

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Astronomy #WomenInSTEM #AmericanHistory #Histodons

  29. #OnThisDay, 9 May 1922, the International Astronomical Union formally adopts Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system. The principles in it still underpin modern classification.

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Astronomy #WomenInSTEM #AmericanHistory #Histodons

  30. “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: wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-di

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EqualRights #BlackAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

  31. “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.”

    , 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: wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-di

  32. “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: wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-di

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EqualRights #BlackAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

  33. “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: wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-di

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EqualRights #BlackAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

  34. “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: wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-di

    #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EqualRights #BlackAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

  35. As we wave farewell to our episode on Maria Mitchell & sunspots, here's an image of the crater named after Maria on the moon!

    Stay tuned tomorrow for a new episode on the #astronomy and Cosmic Background of the #constellation Camelopardalis!

    📷 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell

    #moon #sunspots #sun #crater #astronomers #WomenInSTEM #history #WomensHistory #Space #science #SolarSystem #podcast #astrophotography

  36. As we wave farewell to our episode on Maria Mitchell & sunspots, here's an image of the crater named after Maria on the moon!

    Stay tuned tomorrow for a new episode on the #astronomy and Cosmic Background of the #constellation Camelopardalis!

    📷 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell

    #moon #sunspots #sun #crater #astronomers #WomenInSTEM #history #WomensHistory #Space #science #SolarSystem #podcast #astrophotography

  37. As we wave farewell to our episode on Maria Mitchell & sunspots, here's an image of the crater named after Maria on the moon!

    Stay tuned tomorrow for a new episode on the #astronomy and Cosmic Background of the #constellation Camelopardalis!

    📷 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell

    #moon #sunspots #sun #crater #astronomers #WomenInSTEM #history #WomensHistory #Space #science #SolarSystem #podcast #astrophotography

  38. As we wave farewell to our episode on Maria Mitchell & sunspots, here's an image of the crater named after Maria on the moon!

    Stay tuned tomorrow for a new episode on the #astronomy and Cosmic Background of the #constellation Camelopardalis!

    📷 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell

    #moon #sunspots #sun #crater #astronomers #WomenInSTEM #history #WomensHistory #Space #science #SolarSystem #podcast #astrophotography