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Every day women have, and are, making history. ​Follow for daily posts.

We started the project in 2017, on a bus home from a Womens March.

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, 18 May 1991, cosmonaut Helen Sharman becomes the first British person in space.

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@sarahijackson I was a bit older, but likewise. I imagine the great breeze caused by British women sighing “Helen Sharman” when Tim Peake went into space and got called the first British astronaut. ^Mags

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@sarahijackson this is why sometimes we get a tad grumpy. All we’re doing is posting nuggets to stop people saying, as a school librarian once did to us, “there’s no women in history books because women didn’t do much”. And then we see the media, in our own lifetime, erase women from history.

Gah, indeed.

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, 18 May 1953, Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman pilot to break the sound barrier.

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, 17 May 1988, Dr Patricia Bath was awarded the first of her three patents on the methods and equipment for laser cataract removal.

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#OnThisDay, 15 May 1991, Edith Cresson is appointed Prime Minister of France. She is the first woman to hold the post.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FrenchHistory

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@Snowshadow @NatureMC

Posting about a woman from history does not mean we are endorsing their views. We post about Thatcher, and we certainly took the streets against her at the time.

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#OnThisDay, 15 May 1946, Camilla Williams makes her operatic debut as Cio-Cio San with the New York City Opera. She is the first Black woman to sign a contract with a major US opera company.

Read more: https://carvehername.org.uk/eight-famous-women-singers/

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory

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, 14 May 1943, Vera Leigh returns to France to work as a courier for the British Special Operations Executive.

A fashion designer, Leigh had fled France in 1942 after running escape lines for Allied airmen.

After her return, Leigh carried documents and equipment such as guns and explosives around her network's area. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was executed at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.

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, 13 May 1995, Alison Hargreaves becomes the first woman to scale Everest without supplemental oxygen or sherpa guides.

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, 12 May 1743, Maria Theresa Habsburg is crowned Queen of Bohemia and consolidates her position as the ruler of the Austrian empire. The Seven Year War was promoted by rival claims to the empire, and she worked to elevate her husband to be Holy Roman Emperor. After his death she co-ruled with her son.

She sponsored trials of smallpox inoculation, having lost three of her children to the disease.

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"Women are the equals of men before the law, and are equal in all their rights."

, 10 May 1872, Victoria Woodhull was nominated to run for US president by the Equal Rights Party. Her nomination was ratified on June 6, 1872, making her the first woman candidate.

Woodhall had co-founded, with her sister, both a Wall Street brokerage and a newspaper. She was also an anti-abortionist and eugenics supporter.

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, 9 May 1922, the International Astronomical Union formally adopts Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system. The principles in it still underpin modern classification.

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“I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as much as a man, I have a right to have as much as a man.”

, 9 May 1867, Sojourner Truth addresses the American Equal Rights Association, arguing for equal rights for Black women.

Read a brief history of Truth’s life: https://wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-divided/antebellum/sojourner-truth/

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, 8 May 1946, Estonian teens Aili Jürgenson and Ageeda Paavel blew up a Soviet war memorial in response to Soviet destruction of Estonian war memorials. They served eight years in the gulag as punishment. In 1988 they were awarded the Estonian Order of the Cross of the Eagle to recognise their fight.

We only have a photo of Aili Jürgenson.

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, 8 May 1865, Dr Mary Harris Thompson founds the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children. At the time one of the city's two existing hospitals did not admit women patients.

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, 7 May 1429, Jeanne d'Arc leads the French troops into the last day of fighting to lift the Siege of Orleans.

Read more at https://carvehername.org.uk/joan-of-arc-7-may-1429/

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Very early , 6 May 1944, Marguerite 'Peggy' Knight parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance.

Knight fought her way out of an attempted capture, and returned to the UK in September 1944.

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, 6 May 1935, Audrey Wurdemann wins the Pulitzer prize for poetry for her collection 'Bright Ambush'.

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, 5 May 1938, Dorothy Anderson presents her medical research that identified cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the American Pediatric Association.

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, 3 May 1933, Nellie Tayloe Ross takes up post as director of the US Mint. She is the first woman to hold the position, and stays in post for 20 years.

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These are just some of the women who made history - great or small - in May.

If you like what we do, please:
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We also have a kofi account (link, as they say, in bio).

A Black woman in very 1980s clothing, sat behind a desk and smiling. the label reads 'inventor'
A white sitting on the edge of a jetplane's cockpit. She's wearing trousers, a blouse and shoes she probably didn't wear when flying. The red label reads 'aviator'
A group of white and brown women standing in front of large union banners. It's the 1970s - you can just tell. The red label reads 'unionists'

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We've also got some women who did shitty things, but we've already got the sign ready.

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, 2 May 1999, Mireya Moscoso is elected as President of Panama, winning nearly 45% of the vote.

She was the first woman to hold the role, and served for five years. As she was not married, her older sister served as First Lady.

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"The mentality in the 1960s was that women weren't smart or strong enough to be jockeys. But I proved that a woman could do the job."

, 2 May 1970, Diane Crump becomes the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby.

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