Died #onthisday in 1834, Giovanni Aldini, the Italian "galvanist" whose experiments in animating the muscles of the dead with electricity inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Read more in our essay by Sharon Ruston: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-science-of-life-and-death-in-mary-shelleys-frankenstein
Died #onthisday in 1834, Giovanni Aldini, the Italian "galvanist" whose experiments in animating the muscles of the dead with electricity inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Read more in our essay by Sharon Ruston: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-science-of-life-and-death-in-mary-shelleys-frankenstein
#OnThisDay, 15 Jan 1908, Ethel Hedgemon Lyle and others form the Alpha Kappa Alpha sonority house at Howard university – the first US university house for Black women.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 15 Jan 1908, Ethel Hedgemon Lyle and others form the Alpha Kappa Alpha sonority house at Howard university – the first US university house for Black women.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
“I honestly believe that almost all of what I've done, there's no reason why other women couldn't or wouldn't or shouldn't do it so, if others are inspired to go and climb some mountains, that would be wonderful.”
#OnThisDay, 14 Jan 2018, Katie Sarah becomes the first woman to complete the Seven-Seven, climbing the highest mountains and volcanoes on each continent.
“I honestly believe that almost all of what I've done, there's no reason why other women couldn't or wouldn't or shouldn't do it so, if others are inspired to go and climb some mountains, that would be wonderful.”
#OnThisDay, 14 Jan 2018, Katie Sarah becomes the first woman to complete the Seven-Seven, climbing the highest mountains and volcanoes on each continent.
#OnThisDay, 13 Jan 1972, Bernice Gera wins her discrimination case against the National Association of Baseball Leagues for refusing her contract on the ground women could not be baseball umpires.
She resigns after her first game as an umpire, citing the level of harassment she received on and off the field.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 13 Jan 1972, Bernice Gera wins her discrimination case against the National Association of Baseball Leagues for refusing her contract on the ground women could not be baseball umpires.
She resigns after her first game as an umpire, citing the level of harassment she received on and off the field.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
"The time has passed when a woman should be placed in a position and kept there only while someone else is being groomed for the job."
#OnThisDay, 12 Jan 1932, Hattie Wyatt Caraway wins a special US Senate election to become the first woman elected to the Senate. She won 92% of the vote.
She was a Southern Democrat. Though she was progressive on women’s rights, she voted against anti-lynching laws that could have protected Black people.
#OnThisDay, 12 Jan 2018, women in Saudi Arabia attend a football match for the first time, at a stadium in Jeddah. They remain segregated, and are required to use separate 'family' gates to enter the 'family' seating.
"The time has passed when a woman should be placed in a position and kept there only while someone else is being groomed for the job."
#OnThisDay, 12 Jan 1932, Hattie Wyatt Caraway wins a special US Senate election to become the first woman elected to the Senate. She won 92% of the vote.
She was a Southern Democrat. Though she was progressive on women’s rights, she voted against anti-lynching laws that could have protected Black people.
#OnThisDay, 12 Jan 2018, women in Saudi Arabia attend a football match for the first time, at a stadium in Jeddah. They remain segregated, and are required to use separate 'family' gates to enter the 'family' seating.
#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1935, Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to California.
Earhart was an aviation pioneer, and set many records before her plane was lost in the Pacific in 1937.
#WomenPilots #HistoryOfFlight #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1935, Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to California.
Earhart was an aviation pioneer, and set many records before her plane was lost in the Pacific in 1937.
#WomenPilots #HistoryOfFlight #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1055, Theodora Porphyrogenita is proclaimed sole 'emperor' of the Byzantine Empire after the death of her sister Zoë. The sisters had previously ruled the empire - the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe - together.
#RegnantWomen #History #ByzantianHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1055, Theodora Porphyrogenita is proclaimed sole 'emperor' of the Byzantine Empire after the death of her sister Zoë. The sisters had previously ruled the empire - the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe - together.
#RegnantWomen #History #ByzantianHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
JANUARY 10, 1854: WOMAN JAILED FOR TEACHING FREE BLACK CHILDREN TO READ
A judge in Norfolk, Virginia, sentenced a white woman, Margaret Douglass, to one month in jail for teaching free Black children to read.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/woman-jailed-teaching-black-children-to-read/
JANUARY 10, 1854: WOMAN JAILED FOR TEACHING FREE BLACK CHILDREN TO READ
A judge in Norfolk, Virginia, sentenced a white woman, Margaret Douglass, to one month in jail for teaching free Black children to read.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/woman-jailed-teaching-black-children-to-read/
Today in 1905, 121 years ago: in Russia the strike movement intensifies, which becomes revolutionary and will culminate in the Bloody Sunday massacre by the tsarist troops.
#OnThisDay, 9 Jan 1998, Dr Mo Mowlam, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, held talks with loyalist prisoners in the Maze prison in an effort to continue the peace talks that eventually led to the Good Friday Agreement.
Archive news: https://www.rte.ie/archives/2018/0108/931726-mo-mowlam-visits-maze
