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Today in 1791, 234 years ago: The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
#OnThisDay, 4 Dec 1978, Dianne Feinstein was formally sworn in as Mayor of San Francisco.
She had been the acting Mayor after the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk the week before.
She goes on to win two more terms, and to be elected to the US Senate where she served until her death in 2023.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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Today in 2019, 6 years ago: in Wuhan, the first cases of COVID-19 were recorded in the People's Republic of China, so it is considered the start date of the COVID-19 outbreak that would later be declared an epidemic and subsequently a pandemic in 2020.
“The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.”
#OnThisDay, 1 Dec 1955, Rosa Parks does *not* give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger, and is arrested. Her refusal is a key moment in the American civil rights movement.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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“I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.”
#OnThisDay, 3 Dec 1990, Mary Robinson was inaugurated as the first woman to be President of the Republic of Ireland.
"In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom."
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #IrishHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 3 Dec 1910, Emmeline Freda Du Faur becomes the first white woman to climb Aoraki (Mount Cook) in New Zealand.
If other women climbed it earlier, their climbs were not recorded.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory #Histodons
Today in 1991, 34 years ago: at the end of the Cold War, a popular referendum in Ukraine approved the plan to become independent from the Soviet Union.
Today in 1991, 34 years ago: Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
On this day in 1955, the civil rights activist Rosa Parks rejected a bus driver's order to vacate a seat for a white female passenger after the "white" section of the bus was filled.
Parks helped inspire the Black community to boycott the city buses, resulting in a landmark Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional, a *whole year later*.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_bus_boycott
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browder_v._Gayle
#OTD #OnThisDay #history #CivilRights #RosaParks #BlackHistory #BlackWomen
The lamp at the Great Orme lighthouse was lit #OnThisDay in 1862. It guided ships to Liverpool until 1985, when it was converted to a B&B. The old Fresnel lens is now in the Great Orme Visitor Centre. Read more, and buy my Lighthouses of Wales book, at https://lighthouses.wales/the-lighthouses/great-orme/
#OnThisDay, 30 Nov 2017, Katrín Jakobsdóttir became prime minister of Iceland.
She was the second woman to hold the post.
She resigned as PM in 2024 so she could run for President. She came second to Halla Tómasdóttir (who is in turn the second woman to be Icelandic President).
“The only attribute of a good officer we amateurs had any real trouble to acquire,” said Allen, “was the correct, slow police step.”
#OnThisDay, 27 Nov 1914, Mary Allen and Ellen Harburn of the Women Police Volunteers reported for duty in Grantham, UK.
This is a 🧵 that takes a turn.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons
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