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#OnThisDay, 22 May 2003, Annika Sörenstam teed off at Fort Worth’s Colonial golf club. She became the third woman to play a PGA Tour golf tournament, and the first for over 50 years. One male player withdrew from the contest in protest at her inclusion.

Photo is from 2008 LPGA tour.

Annika Sörenstam having just teed off. She is a white woman with blonde hair, holding a golf club. Photo is by Keith Allison.
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“Have ye come far?”
“Only from America.”

#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 Ireland. There’s some wonderful images of her here: joecampbellart.com/2015/03/12/…

Watch newsreel of her taking off here: youtube.com/watch?v=y-itPeJOyz…

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Amelia Earhart sitting on the wheel of her small prop plane, posing for photos. She's a white woman with cropped hair and dressed in a flight suit.

Amelia Earhart in Ireland: Solo Atlantic Crossing, May 21st 1932

May 21, 1932, Amelia Earhart created aviation history as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Landing just outside Derry in Ballyarnett.
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#OnThisDay, 20 May 2016, Tsai Ing-wen was sworn in as President of Taiwan. She is the first woman to hold the role, and was re-elected in 2020.

In 2019 she had pushed through the legalisation of same-sex marriage, despite 67% of the country rejecting it in a referendum.

Tsai Ing-wen at her first inauguration. She is a Taiwanese woman with straight black hair in a bob.
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“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”

#OnThisDay, 19 May 1952, Lillian Hellman writes to the House of UnAmerican Activities refusing to testify against others.

In the 1940s, Hellman had been twice nominated for an Academy Award for her screenplays. As a result of refusing to testify about others to HUAC, she was blacklisted by Hollywood.

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Lillian Hellman in a posed photo with a manual typewriter as if writing her letter to HUAC. She is a white woman with dark hair.
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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.

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Snapshot of Patricia Bath at her desk in the 1980s. She's a Black woman with black hair in waves.
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Recorded #OnThisDay 54 years ago:

David Bowie and The Spiders From Mars - Peel Session 1972

The complete session recorded by David Bowie and the Spiders From Mars on 16 May 1972 for John Peel on the Top Gear show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 23rd of that month.

Tracklist:

1. White Light/White Heat (0:07)
2. Moonage Daydream (3:54)
3. Hang On To Yourself (8:52)
4. Suffragette City (11:42)
5. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust (15:09)

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David Bowie and The Spiders From Mars - Peel Session 1972

The blog for the uploads to the group of Vibracobra23 channels on YouTube, featuring thousands of John Peel Sessions.
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#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.

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A climber in a thick orange suit standing on the snow-capped top of Mount Everest and holding onto a Japanese flag.
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#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.

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Vera Leigh in uniform. She is a white woman with dark hair.
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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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Margaret Brewer in her US Marine dress uniform. She is a white woman with dark hair.
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#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.

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Annie Jump Cannon sat at a desk. She is clearly not a fan of a clear desk policy as it's messy with papers and open drawers. She is a white woman with pale hair.
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#OnThisDay, 8 May 1946, Estonian teens Aili Jürgenson and Ageeda Paavel blew up a Soviet war memorial in response to Soviet destruction of Estonian war memorials. They served eight years in the gulag as punishment.

In 1988 they were awarded the Estonian Order of the Cross of the Eagle to recognise their fight.

We only have a photo of Aili Jürgenson.

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Police mugshots of Aili Jürgenson after her arrest. She is a white woman with dark hair.
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#OnThisDay, 5 May 1938, Dorothy Anderson presents her medical research identifying cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the American Pediatric Association.

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Dorothy Anderson sat behind a desk. She's a white woman with dark hair and is wearing a white doctor's coat.
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#OnThisDay, 1 May 1944, South African Phyllis Latour parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.

She's never captured.

She died in 2023, in New Zealand.

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photo of Phyllis Latour during the 1940s. She is a white woman with dark hair.
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Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

Couriers like Wake would take messages and materials such as explosives, guns or grenades around the patch their network covered.

Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011.

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Studio portrait of Nancy Wake in uniform, showing her parachute badge. She is a white woman with dark hair.
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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

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illustration of Anna ripping up the Conditions as part of her coronation.
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#OnThisDay, 27 Apr 1992, Betty Boothroyd was elected Speaker of the UK House of Commons. She was the first - and to date only - woman to hold the role.

A working class woman, Betty had been a dancer before working for JFK and becoming an MP. She went on to sit in the House of Lords.

Watch: buff.ly/38djBcP

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Betty Boothroyd in her Speaker's robes in the 1990s. She is a white woman with grey hair in some very bling black and gold robes.
Betty Boothroyd on the election campaign trail in the 1970s. She is a white woman with fair hair.

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#OnThisDay, 25 Apr 2005, between 500K and 1.1m people take part in the March for Womens' Lives in Washington DC.
The mall in DC filled with people holding placards for equality. the front row of the march is holding a large banner reading "march for women's lives".
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