Very early #OnThisDay, 6 Apr 1944, Lillian Rolfe and Violette Szabo separately arrive in occupied France to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SEO). Rolfe is a wireless operator, Szabo a courier.

Szabo returns to the UK at the end of April but goes back to France in June 1944 and is captured. Rolfe is captured in July 1944.

They are executed together, by shooting, in Ravensbrück concentration camp in Feb 1945.

#History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons #EuropeanHistory

Why is a bridge in Sarajevo named after two women?

#OnThisDay, 5 Apr 1992, Suada Dilberović, a Muslim, and Olga Sučić, a Catholic, were killed whilst on a peace protest in Sarajevo during the outbreak of the Bosnian war. They are the first civilian casualties in what became the Siege of Sarajevo. The siege lasted 1,425 days, and over 5,000 civilians were killed during it.

The bridge they died on has been renamed in their memory.

#WomenInHistory #EuropeanHistory #OTD #History #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 1 April 1983, around 200 women dressed as teddy bears or Easter bunnies break into the Greenham Common airbase in the UK to stage a protest picnic against nuclear warfare. Greenham was due to house US nuclear missiles

A further 40,000 protestors, men and women, form a human chain linking #Greenham to #Aldermaston and Burghfield.

Women had established the peace camps at Greenham in 1981.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #PeaceProtests #Histodons

“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."

#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was drafting the Declaration of Independence. He declined her suggestions.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

On this day in 1967, more than 10,000 people showed up for a "be-in" in NYC's Central Park.

"It represents a cultural moment in our history. Central Park became an epicenter of the counterculture in New York, where different people from all walks of life could gather."

nytimes.com/2019/03/25/style/c…

#OnThisDay #OTD #history #protests #protest #BeIn #counterculture #NYC #CentralPark #The60s

When a ‘Be In’ in Central Park Was Front-Page News

Fifty-two years ago, thousands came to Central Park for a counterculture happening that influenced decades of political gatherings there.

^{Laura M. Holson (The New York Times)}

#OnThisDay, 25 Mar 1941, the first WRNS arrive at Bletchley Park in the UK. They operate the Bombe machines used for decoding German Enigma machine messages. Their work helps shorten World War 2.

#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #WorldWar2 #History #BletchleyPark #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 24 Mar 1944, Éliane Plewman is arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied France after six months operating as a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance. A courier carried messages and equipment around their network.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory #SOE

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A German guard once asked Maureen O'Sullivan what was in her suitcase. She laughed. “A wireless, of course!”.

Very early #OnThisDay, 23 Mar 1944 , Maureen 'Paddy' O'Sullivan parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.

The SOE supported the French Resistance. Radio operators were at the greatest risk of capture as their position could be triangulated. O’Sullivan was never captured.

#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistoryMonth #WW2

On this day in 1915, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the "original soul sister" and "Godmother of rock and roll" was born.

"Rock 'n' roll was bred between the church and the nightclubs in the soul of a queer black woman in the 1940s named Sister Rosetta Tharpe."

youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZ…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_R…

npr.org/2017/08/24/544226085/f…

#music #history #MusicHistory #WomenInMusic #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #RockNRoll #RockMusic #OnThisDay #OTD #SisterRosettaTharpe

#OnThisDay, 19 March 1944, Yvonne Baseden parachutes into Nazi-occupied France as a Special Operations Executive radio operator. The British SOE supported the French resistance. Radio operators ran the greatest risk of discovery as their position could be triangulated when they were transmitting.

Baseden was captured and sent to Ravensbrück.

She was the subject of the first regular UK edition of This Is Your Life in 1955.

#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History #WorldWar2 #Histodons

Happy 9th anniversary to the first Mastodon post!

Via stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1…

#mastodon #fediverse #anniversary #OTD #OnThisDay

On this date in 1781, William and Caroline Herschel discovered a new “comet”, which turned out to be the planet now known as Uranus. It was the first new planet to be discovered since ancient times. And William Herschel wanted to call it Georgium Sidius (George’s Star) after his patron King George III of England. The things scientists contemplate to get funding…

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus

#OnThisDay #astronomy

seventh planet in the Solar System from the Sun

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Happy 24th anniversary to Daft Punk's second album, Discovery.

"Discovery was vigorous and innovative in its exploration of "old questions and spent ideals", hailing it as "a towering, persuasive tour de force" that "transcends the dance label" with no shortage of ideas, humor, or "brilliance""

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discover…

#OTD #OnThisDay #music #DaftPunk #discovery #anniversary

2001 album by Daft Punk

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It was on this day 36 years ago when @timbl submitted his proposal to CERN for an "information management system", precursor to the World Wide Web.

"In the proposal, Berners-Lee modestly spoke of wanting to use hypertext, a.k.a. links, to help CERN deal with information storage issues.

[...]

His boss’s response?

“Vague, but exciting.”"

vox.com/2019/3/12/18260709/30t…

#OTD #OnThisDay #internet #TheWeb #history #VagueButExciting

The World Wide Web — not the internet — turns 30 years old

The World Wide Web was conceived on March 12, 1989, by computing legend Tim Berners-Lee.

^{Aja Romano (Vox)}