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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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, 4 Jun 1972, civil rights activist Angela Davis is acquitted in a trial over her alleged involvement in the 1970 Marin County Civic Centre attack.

Davis had been prosecuted for three capital felonies, including conspiracy to murder, after guns she owned were used in the attack. The all-white jury cleared her of all charges.

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, 4 Jun 1919, the US Senate approved the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote. It was ratified in August 1920.

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100 years ago , 3 Jun 1924, Alfonsina Strada crosses the finish line of the Giro d'Italia. She remains the only woman to have officially ridden in a Grand Tour.

At one point she had been disqualified on time grounds but was allowed to continue without the option of prizes. She finished ahead of the lantern rouge (the last cyclist to finish).

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, 28 May 1944, Sonia Butt parachutes into occupied France as an explosives expert for the British Special Operations Executive. She had turned 20 two weeks earlier.

She trained the maquis and coordinated sabotage operations. She was never captured.

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#OnThisDay, 26 May 2010, Kamla Persad-Bissessar is the first woman to be sworn in as Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. She is currently the leader of the opposition.

In 2010 she also became the first woman to chair the Commonwealth of Nations.

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A quick thread of posts that should have been live yesterday (24 May). It was very inconsiderate of a cold virus to strike me down before I'd scheduled them...

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory
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#OnThisDay, 25 May 2018, Mia Mottley is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Barbados. She is the first woman to hold the role, and has since been re-elected.

Under her leadership, Barbados became a republic, 55 years after it declared independence from Britain.

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#OnThisDay, 23 May 1907, 19 women take their seats in the Finnish Parliament. They are the first women Parliamentarians in the world.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #EuropeanHistory

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#OnThisDay, 23 May 1988, four women storm the BBC news studio whilst the news is live on air, protesting the introduction of Section 28. Section 28 banned the “promotion of homosexuality” by local government in the UK, and was intended to stop LGBT+ campaigns for equal rights.

It was not repealed until 2003.

Watch footage from the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZdpNjJakiI&ab_channel=BBCStories

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #LGBTHistory #BritishHistory #Section28 #Histodons

A newspaper headline from the Daily Mirror, reading 'Beeb man sits on lesbian'

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#OnThisDay, 23 May 1941 Giliana Balmaceda (Gillian Gerson) lands in occupied France. She is the first woman to be a Special Operations Executive agent in France, and scouts out escape lines and collects documents to be forged.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory

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#OnThisDay, 23 May 1430, Jeanne d'Arc, fighting in the rearguard, is pulled from her horse and captured by the Burgundians at the siege of Compiègne. She is then sold as a prisoner to the British, who put her on trial for heresy.

Learn more about Jeanne’s rise and fall here: https://carvehername.org.uk/joan-of-arc-7-may-1429/

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #JoanOfArc #EuropeanHistory

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#OnThisDay, 22 May 2003, Annika Sörenstam teed off at Fort Worth’s Colonial golf club. She became the third woman to play a PGA Tour golf tournament, and the first for over 50 years. One male player withdrew from the contest in protest at her inclusion.

Photo is from 2008 LPGA tour.

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“Have ye come far?”
“Only from America.”

, 21 May 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman - and only the second person - to fly solo and without stops across the Atlantic.

She lands unexpectedly in Ireland. There’s some wonderful images of her here: https://joecampbellart.com/2015/03/12/amelia-earhart-in-ireland-solo-atlantic-crossing-may-21st-1932/

Watch newsreel of her taking off here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-itPeJOyzI

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#OnThisDay, 20 May 2016, Tsai Ing-wen was sworn in as President of Taiwan. She is the first woman to hold the role, and wasre-elected in 2020.

In 2019 she had pushed through the legalisation of same-sex marriage, despite 67% of the country rejecting it in a referendum.

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

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory

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

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AviationHistory #Histodons

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

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

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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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, 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/

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

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory

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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."

#OnThisDay, 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.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory #OTD

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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.”

#OnThisDay, 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/

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EqualRights #BlackAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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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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