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“The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.”
#OnThisDay, 1 Dec 1955, Rosa Parks does *not* give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger, and is arrested. Her refusal is a key moment in the American civil rights movement.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.
Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
#OTD 50 ago, Spain’s dictator Francisco Franco died.
Spaniards are still healing from the scars of his regime, and dealing with the intergenerational trauma caused by an authoritarian regime reaching into the most intimate parts of life.
theconversation.com/50-years-a…
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50 years after Franco’s death, giving a voice to Spanish dictator’s imprisoned mothers
Women were often jailed for their association with anti-Franco male relatives. Behind bars, they suffered mental and physical torture.The Conversation
#OnThisDay, 19 Nov 1933, women across Spain voted for the first time.
Franco was in power from 1939, after the Spanish Civil War. Under his dictatorship only the heads of households could vote, radically reducing women's rights until after his death in 1975.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #SpanishHistory #Histodons
"We may not all be equally guilty. But we are all equally responsible for building a decent and just society."
- Ruby Bridges
On this day in 1960, Ruby Bridges walked into a New Orleans school and sparked change that still shapes classrooms today.
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#BlackHistory #BlackVoices #History #Histodons #USHistory #CivlRights #Education #OTD #OnThisDay
#OnThisDay, 13 Nov 1931, Democrat Hattie Wyatt Caraway is appointed as a US Senator for Arkansas.
The first woman to sit in the Senate for more than a day, she'd been selected by the party on the understanding that she would serve out her late husband's term and not stand for re-election in 1932.
Instead she stood again, and remained a Senator until 1945.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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Happy birthday to Kathleen Hanna, American singer, pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, lead singer of the feminist punk band Bikini Kill, frontwoman of Le Tigre in the late 1990s, born this day 1968 in Portland
📸 Allison Michael Orenstein
#womenofpunk #kathleenhanna #riotgrrrl #history #otd
#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1906, British composer Ethel Smyth's opera 'The Wreckers' opens in Leipzig. Appalled by cuts made by the production, she removes all copies of the score from the orchestra pit to prevent further performances.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #MusicHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1865, Dr Mary Edwards Walker receives the Medal of Honor from US President Andrew Johnson for her services as a field surgeon in the American Civil War.
A lifelong "dress reformer", she wore trousers under short dresses and eventually switched to trousers and jackets. She was frequently arrested for her choice. "I don't wear men's clothes, I wear my own clothes," she said.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInWar #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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SESAME STREET debuted #OTD in 1969.
It changed the face of children's television — and transformed the way a generation looked at race and the world beyond our doorstep.
#SesameStreet #SesameStreetDay
Lynda Carter as WONDER WOMAN punched her first Nazi on this date in 1975.
50 years later, she's still a hero to us all. 🇺🇸
#OTD #WonderWoman #ClassicTV #1970sTV
Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays #OTD in 1895 when he noticed that emanations from a Crookes tube caused a platino-barium screen to fluoresce. The rays exposed photographic plates but were blocked by bone and metal.
This early plate shows his wife's hand.
Image: Wellcome Trust
