77 years young 🔥🍾💥

Happy Birthday to James Newell Osterberg aka Iggy Pop, designated the "Godfather of Punk, born on this day in 1947, Muskegon, Michigan

Photo by Rob Baker Ashton

#punk #punks #punkrock #iggypop #history #punkrockhistory #otd

#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie refine radium chloride. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

The Academy originally planned to award only Pierre and Henri Becquerel. Pierre insisted that Marie should also be included.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen

Many people have learned that horses first came to the Americas when Spanish explorers brought them here about 500 years ago.

But fossils show horses have been in North America for centuries, including during the Americas during the last Ice Age 10,000 years ago.

https://theconversation.com/horses-lived-in-the-americas-for-millions-of-years-new-research-helps-paleontologists-understand-the-fossils-weve-found-and-those-that-are-missing-from-the-record-223268
#history #science #evolution #horses

Horses lived in the Americas for millions of years – new research helps paleontologists understand the fossils we’ve found and those that are missing from the record

Horse fossils are abundant and widespread across North America. Scientists often use their long history to illustrate how species evolve in response to a changing environment.

^{The Conversation}

“I expect this will be the making of me.”

#OnThisDay, 19 Apr 1927, Mae West is convicted on obscenity charges for her play 'sex', and starts a ten day jail sentence.

She's released two days early for good behaviour.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory

The never-ending conflict in the Middle East should be declared a World Heritage Site.

#WorldHeritageSite #unesco #conflict #quote #war #terror #politics #diplomacy #future #history #israel #palestine #fail #humanrights #problem #humanity #middleeast

#OnThisDay, 19 Apr 1967, Katherine Switzer becomes the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon as a registered runner, despite the organiser physically trying to stop her.

She ran it again in 2017, 50 years later.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory

This is just a reminder that, in 1631, Robert Barker in London misprinted a famous line of the Holy Bible, namely „Thou shalt commit adultery“.

The forbidden copies with the famous slip sold well, and a few survived in our catalogues. The edition was called the Wicked Bible afterwards. #bookhistory #histodons #history #bible

#OnThisDay, 18 Apr 1905, Baroness Bertha von Suttner becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism.

As well as writing an influential novel, Lay Down Your Arms (1889), she founded the German Peace Society in 1892. In 1907 she was the only woman to attend the Second Hague Peace Convention, and warned that Europe was heading for war once again.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #EuropeanHistory #NobelWomen

#PhallusThursday

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a flying phallus! You can just spy the loop at the bottom that would enable this to be worn as a protective amulet.

Ah, Rome, the society where wearing a phallus bespoke good fortune, health, and warded off the evil eye.

#AncientRome #History @AimeeMaroux

#OnThisDay, 17 Apr 1964, Jerrie Mock touches down in Ohio to become the first woman to fly solo around the world. Press coverage of the time made much of her being a “housewife”. 🙄

Watch a newsreel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Pz2zGZ3To

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AviationHistory #AmericanHistory

Inside the world of hidden #Renaissance portraits: ‘It’s very playful’

A new exhibition at #theMet looks at the practice of hiding portraits 🖼 attached to other portraits and the many reasons artists 👩‍🎨 chose to be secretive with their work

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/16/hidden-renaissance-portraits-met

#art #glam #ArtHistory #history @histodons

I’m finally trying to clear out my dad’s stuff (which is extremely difficult) and I came across grandpa’s war souvenirs. There are lots of these, and also some ReichMarks, medals and pins, etc. It’s all very creepy.

I’d like to sell it to a history buff but not one with Nazi sympathies. #ww2 #nazis #history

"My comrades, who did far more and suffered more profoundly than I, are not here to speak. Because of this, I speak for them."

#OnThisDay, 16 April 1943, Special Operations Executive agent Odette Samsom is arrested by the Gestapo in France. The British SOE worked with the French resistance.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #WorldWar2

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#OnThisDay, 16 Apr 1912, Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly a plane across the English Channel.

Quimby was the first American woman to receive a pilot’s licence and made her living doing exhibition flights in the US. She also made money as the advertising face of a grape juice. She died in July 1912 when her plane pitched forward at 1,000 feet and she was thrown out.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AviationHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 15 Apr 1960, Ella Baker convenes a conference of 126 independent student protest groups. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) forms as a result. SNCC coordinated and assisted direct-action challenges to segregation in the USA.

Baker was a civil rights activist for five decades, and advocated grassroots activism. She also criticised the misogyny she encountered within the movement.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Mycenaean terracotta jar ~ c. 1200–1100 BCE

Gaze into the hypnotic eyes of this ancient octopus and marvel in the Mycenaean artistry on display. The poor fish must be just as bamboozled really.

🏛 The Met

#AncientMediterranean #History

Yes, there is an “old” Zealand. — #History Facts

https://historyfacts.com/world-history/fact/theres-an-old-zealand/

There’s an “old” Zealand.

Some “new” places have become so much more well known than their namesakes that most of us don’t even think to wonder what those namesakes are.

^{megneal (History Facts)}

#TIL The "Führerbunker" where Adolf Hitler cowardly committed suicide in 1945, is now a parking lot.

"This is how you properly honor history’s greatest monsters: not at all."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9WbOEWWBmg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrerbunker

via https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/112259117642076024

#history

The Site of Hitler's Bunker

In early 1945, as Allied armies advanced on Berlin and Nazi Germany lay in ruins, Hitler and his staff retreated to a bunker complex behind the former Reich ...

^YouTube

Very early #OnThisDay, 12 Apr 1944, Odette Wilen parachutes into France to work as a wireless operator for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supports the French resistance.

Wireless operators were at the greatest risk of discovery, as their position could be triangulated whenever they were transmitting messages back to London.

Wilen evades capture by minutes and escapes over the Pyrenees. She lives until 2015.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WorldWar2

Surprise: #Google has transformed itself from a #hipster #startup into a cheesy, normal #company, where you are now just as much of an #employee as anywhere else.

https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2024-01-19-CultureChange/
#job #history #economy #internet #software #developer #coder #nerd #change #news #business #management #blog

"I don’t wear men’s clothes, I wear my own."

#OnThisDay, 10 Apr 1864, army surgeon Dr Mary Edwards Walker is captured by the Confederates during the US Civil War. She later receives the Medal of Honor.

As well as serving in the Civil War, and being a dress reformer who preferred to wear trousers, she was also a suffragist who declined to take her husband’s name when they married.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Ben Barres was a trailblazing transgender neurobiologist who promoted equity & diversity.

His pioneering research on glial cells changed science & he became the 1st #trans person admitted into the National Academies of Science.

Barres was a strong advocate for women, early career scientists & the #LGBTQ+ community at a time when few people openly discussed gender identity. https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2017/12/28/mourning-ben-barres-the-transgender-scientist-who-changed-neuroscience/ #history #science

Excerpt from his autobiography: https://stanmed.stanford.edu/ben-barres-autobiography-transgender-scientist/

I have been recommending #TurningPoint on #Netflix to everyone: https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81614129?s=i&trkid=14751296&vlang=en&clip=81760325

I also wonder if everyone should watch the 1983 movie #TheDayAfter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG-e52yAxfs

It reportedly deeply affected #RonaldReagan that year.

It was a big year, there was a lot going on.

@GreenFire @Free_Press
#history #ColdWar #KineticWar #news