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#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.

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A black and white photo of some woods in winter. A long chainlink fence, topped with barbed wire, stretches from the rightmost corner to the horizon, following dips and hollows in the land. Along its entire length, as far as the eye can see, women are standing along the fence.

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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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Mugshot of Rosa Parks after her arrest. She is a black woman with glasses.
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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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Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the 2010s. She is a white woman with dark grey hair.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the 1960s, in front of a radio telescope. she is a white woman with dark hair, wearing a sensible duffle coat given how cold it must have been out there.
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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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Three older Spanish women in long gowns voting at a polling station in 1933. There is a woman receiving their ballots, and a couple of men and a young woman watching.
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