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#OnThisDay, 13 Jan 1976, Sarah Caldwell takes up the baton at the New York Met Opera, becoming the first woman to conduct an opera there.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1939, French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers element 87, which she later names francium. It was the last element to be discovered naturally.
Perey was a student of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. She was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize but never received it.
#WomenInSTEM #ScienceHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 6 Jan 1907, Maria Montessori opens her first Casa Dei Bambini in Rome. Her aim was to improve the lives of the 50 working class children in her care.
Hundreds of schools worldwide now follow elements of the educational theory she developed through working with them.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
On this day in 1983, the ARPANET network officially switched to using the TCP/IP protocol, effectively creating the Internet.
"January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other."
It's ALIVE!
#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 1818, Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' was published anonymously. Her gothic novel was also one of the first science-fiction novels.
#ReadMoreWomen #LiteraryWomen
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#OnThisDay, 26 Dec 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie announced their discovery of radium.
In 1903, Marie, Pierre and Henri Becquerel received the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on radiation. Marie was the first woman to receive the award.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons
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