#OnThisDay, 11 Dec 1983, tens of thousands of women take part in 'reflect the base' at Greenham Common in the UK.

They encircle the 9 mile perimeter fence of the nuclear missile base, tearing it down in at least one place. Hundreds of women are arrested.

The Peace Camp at Greenham ran for nearly 20 years, and founded and run by women.

Watch news footage from the time: gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video…

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Today marks 60 years since the release of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" back on December 9, 1965. Written by Charles M. Schulz and directed by Bill Melendez, with an iconic jazz soundtrack composed by Vince Guaraldi.

In its short 25 minute run, it touches upon the loneliness and melancholy that tend to surface during the holiday season, the superficiality of commercialism, but also ultimately focuses on hopefulness, connection, friendship, the meaning of little gestures, and the joy and beauty that can be found in the small, simple things.

Like most of Schulz's work, it feels disarmingly earnest, and even though the story is told through the lens of childlike innocence, its core message resonates with people of all generations, which has solidified it as a holiday classic for six decades now.

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Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".

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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.

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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.

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#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.

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#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.

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"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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#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.

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