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#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
It's the 26th anniversary of The Matrix, written and directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski, released on March 31st, 1999, making cinematic history and forever leaving its mark on the Sci-Fi genre.
#TheMatrix #CineMastodon #OTD #FilmMastodon #Movies #Matrix
#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
#OTD in 1862.
The first two volumes of Victor Hugo's epic historical novel Les Misérables appear in Brussels, followed on April 3 by Paris publication, with the remaining volumes on May 15. The first English-language translations, by Charles Edwin Wilbour, are published in New York on June 7, and by Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, in London in October.
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French civil engineer Charles Joseph Minard was born #OTD in 1781. He was known for his contributions to information graphics, including his famous map of the losses suffered by Napoleon during the 1812 Russian campaign.
Writing about Minard's map, Edward Tufte said “It may well be the best statistical graphic ever drawn.”
Image: Charles Minard / Public domain
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."
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#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, 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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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."
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#music #history #MusicHistory #WomenInMusic #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #RockNRoll #RockMusic #OnThisDay #OTD #SisterRosettaTharpe
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Remembering Terry Hall, English musician and lead singer of The Specials 🖤
March 19, 1959 - December 18, 2022
The Specials - Too Much Too Young
#punkrock #ska #skalegends #skabands #skamusic #terryhall #thespecials #2tone #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Happy 9th anniversary to the first Mastodon post!
Via stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1…
#mastodon #fediverse #anniversary #OTD #OnThisDay
Stefan Bohacek (@stefan@stefanbohacek.online)
Attached: 1 image The search filters on Mastodon are pretty neat. Found the first post on Mastodon, or a "toot", as they were called back then. https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/1 #mastodon #fediverse #search #MastodonSearch #FirstToot #FirstPostStefan's Personal Mastodon Server
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""
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)
35 years ago today
Guitarist Poison Ivy live on stage with her 1958 6120 Gretsch guitar at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, March 9, 1990.
Photo by Paul Bergen
#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #thecramps #history #punkrockhistory #otd
The Big Red Songbook: 250+ IWW Songs!
In this book about the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union, the editors have gathered songs, rare artwork, personal recollections, discographies, and more into one big all-embracing book.Working Class History | Shop
