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#OnThisDay, 13 Jul 1793, Charlotte Corday assassinates Jean-Paul Marat. She hopes to change the course of the French Revolutionary Republic for the better.

She doesn't.

The painting was done in the hours before her execution by guillotine on 17 July.

#FrenchHistory #WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Painting of Charlotte Corday in prison hours before her death. She is a white woman with fair hair beneath a very big lace bonnet.

lithograph of the assassination scene as Charlotte Corday is arrested by soldiers and women weep over Marat in his bath

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#OnThisDay, 11 July 1877, Kate Edger becomes the first woman in the British Empire to earn a BA (and the first woman in New Zealand to gain any uni degree).

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NewZealandHistory #Histodons

Kate Edger in her cap and gown. She is a white woman, and is looking straight at the camera.

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#OnThisDay, 8 July 1948, Esther Blake becomes the first woman to enlist in the regular US Air Force.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Esther Blake in her air force uniform. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 2 weeks ago

#OnThisDay, 7 July 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman to be nominated to sit on the US Supreme Court.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

photo of Sandra Day O'Conner laughing as she looks around a huge house plant. She is a white woman with light hair.

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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 2 weeks ago

Very early #OnThisDay, 7 Jul 1944 Krystyna Skarbek parachutes into France to work as a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent. The British SOE worked with resistance fighters across German-occupied Europe.

Skarbek had been the first woman to be an SOE agent when she'd previously been sent to Hungary and Poland in 1939-41.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EuropeanHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

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Krystyna Skarbek, second from right, with a group of male maquis fighters. The maquis are wearing combat gear and berets.

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@janhoglund@mastodon.nu · 3 weeks ago

”If Facebook can make the voice of a presidential historian vanish — not just from your feed, but from her own timeline — then what else is being filtered? What else is being buried? What else are we being kept from seeing? This isn’t about one post. This is about the infrastructure of truth itself. And the scariest part? There will be no notification when history is deleted. Only silence.”
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/facebook-is-hiding-heather-cox-richardsons
#facebook #history

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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 3 weeks ago

#OnThisDay, 25 June 1678, Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia receives the Doctorate of Philosophy degree from the University of Padua. She's thought to be be first woman to receive a doctorate in the world.

https://carvehername.org.uk/elena-piscopia-first-woman-doctorate/

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ItalianHistory #Histodons