#OnThisDay, 6 Feb 1987, Mary Gaudron QC was the first woman to be sworn as a justice in the High Court of Australia.
#OnThisDay, 6 Feb 1987, Mary Gaudron QC was the first woman to be sworn as a justice in the High Court of Australia.
"So, this is death. Well!" — final words of the Scottish philosopher + historian Thomas Carlyle who died #onthisday in 1881. He's pictured here in a 19th-century print produced by the Japanese Department of Education, of which you can see more here https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-prints-of-western-inventors-artists-and-scholars-1873/ #otd
"So, this is death. Well!" — final words of the Scottish philosopher + historian Thomas Carlyle who died #onthisday in 1881. He's pictured here in a 19th-century print produced by the Japanese Department of Education, of which you can see more here https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-prints-of-western-inventors-artists-and-scholars-1873/ #otd
#OnThisDay, 5 Feb 1919, Mary Pickford co-founds United Artists in Hollywood. The production company was an attempt by actors and directors to control their own work rather than being owned by a studio.
#ReclaimTheFrame #HollywoodHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 5 Feb 1919, Mary Pickford co-founds United Artists in Hollywood. The production company was an attempt by actors and directors to control their own work rather than being owned by a studio.
#ReclaimTheFrame #HollywoodHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
Happy birthday to civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who was born on this day in 1913 ✊
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
#RosaParks #CivilRights #OTD #OnThisDay #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
#OnThisDay in 1918, Millie Bailey was born. She would become a #BlackHistory maker, becoming one of the first Black female Army officers. READ: https://open.substack.com/pub/sonsoflibertyofficial/p/blackhistorymonth-millie-bailey
#OnThisDay in 1918, Millie Bailey was born. She would become a #BlackHistory maker, becoming one of the first Black female Army officers. READ: https://open.substack.com/pub/sonsoflibertyofficial/p/blackhistorymonth-millie-bailey
#OnThisDay, 3 Feb 1995, Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle on a mission when she took the helm of #Discovery. She would go on to become the first woman to command a Shuttle.
#OnThisDay, 3 Feb 1995, Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle on a mission when she took the helm of #Discovery. She would go on to become the first woman to command a Shuttle.
#BlackHistoryMonth #OnThisDay in 1901, Benjamin Davis Sr. took his officer exam to be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army, putting him on a path to become the first Black Brigadier General. READ: https://open.substack.com/pub/sonsoflibertyofficial/p/onthisday-in-blackhistory-benjamin
#OnThisDay, 2 Feb 1953, Dr Anna de Waal becomes State Secretary for Education, Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands. She is the first woman to hold a ministerial cabinet post in the country.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #DutchHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 2 Feb 1953, Dr Anna de Waal becomes State Secretary for Education, Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands. She is the first woman to hold a ministerial cabinet post in the country.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #DutchHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay in 1960: The Woolworth's sit-in protest against segregation in Greensboro, North Carolina. Not the first, but the start of a snowball. 4 fed-up students who decided to do something about it.
66 years later, we are seeing segregation roaring back (in many ways it never really left). This isn't just USpol, the international anti-immigrant trend is strongly based in racism. What are you deciding to do about it?
#OnThisDay in 1960: The Woolworth's sit-in protest against segregation in Greensboro, North Carolina. Not the first, but the start of a snowball. 4 fed-up students who decided to do something about it.
66 years later, we are seeing segregation roaring back (in many ways it never really left). This isn't just USpol, the international anti-immigrant trend is strongly based in racism. What are you deciding to do about it?
