#OnThisDay in #1612 #Galileo Galilei became the first person to observe the #planet #Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
#OnThisDay in #1612 #Galileo Galilei became the first person to observe the #planet #Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
Today in 1978, 47 years ago: Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of fascist dictatorship.
Today in 1978, 47 years ago: Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of fascist dictatorship.
Today in 1606, 419 years ago: The ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery depart England carrying settlers who founded, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
#OnThisDay in 2001, at the age of 57, the German writer W. G. Sebald died while driving his car. In a special post we feature the many public domain books of which, and through which, Sebald speaks in his masterpiece The Rings of Saturn (1995) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/texts-in-sebald-s-the-rings-of-saturn #otd
#OnThisDay, 14 Dec 1985, Wilma Mankiller was sworn in as Chief of the Cherokee Nation. She went to serve two more terms as Chief.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 14 Dec 1918, some women across the UK vote legally in parliamentary elections for the first time. It's the culmination of decades of campaigning.
Only women over 30 who held some property rights were allowed to vote, whereas all men over 21 could vote.
It was another decade until women had equal voting rights as men.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
The results of the UK GE1918 weren't announced until 28 Dec but #OnThisDay, 14 Dec 1918, Constance Markievicz becomes the first woman elected to the UK parliament.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen #IrishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay in London's radical history, 1810: Times newspaper compositors jailed for 'conspiring', ie forming a union.
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#OnThisDay, 11 Dec 1983, tens of thousands of women take part in 'reflect the base' at Greenham Common in the UK.
They encircle the 9 mile perimeter fence of the nuclear missile base, tearing it down in at least one place. Hundreds of women are arrested.
The Peace Camp at Greenham ran for nearly 20 years, and founded and run by women.
Watch news footage from the time: https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video/greenham-common-womens-peace-group-protesting-the-arrival-news-footage/98769427
On this day in 1815 Ada Lovelace was born. She grew up to be the world's first computer programmer, which she did while Charles Babbage was desperately trying to build the world's first computer. See the Wikipedia page for more.
#OnThisDay in 1909 Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Read about the woman and her work in Jenny Watson's essay "Selma Lagerlöf: Surface and Depth" —https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/selma-lagerlof-surface-and-depth/ #OTD
#OnThisDay, 18 Dec 2007, Yulia Tymoshenko narrowly won the Ukrainian Parliament's backing to return as Prime Minister.
She had co-led Ukraine’s 'Orange Revolution' in 2004-05, and held strong pro-EU views. In 2009, as Ukraine’s PM, she had to negotiate with Putin after Russia switched off the gas supply to the country. Tymoshenko was then imprisoned between 2011 and 2014, during Viktor Yanukovych’s presidency, in what was seen as a politically motivated case.
#OnThisDay, 18 Dec 2007, Yulia Tymoshenko narrowly won the Ukrainian Parliament's backing to return as Prime Minister.
She had co-led Ukraine’s 'Orange Revolution' in 2004-05, and held strong pro-EU views. In 2009, as Ukraine’s PM, she had to negotiate with Putin after Russia switched off the gas supply to the country. Tymoshenko was then imprisoned between 2011 and 2014, during Viktor Yanukovych’s presidency, in what was seen as a politically motivated case.
Today in 2019, 6 years ago: Start of the coronavirus pneumonia epidemic in China.
Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".
