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, 3 Feb 1956, Autherine Lucy stepped onto the University of Alabama's campus, becoming the first African-American student to attend classes there.After being expelled, she finally graduates in 1992. [photo with Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt Library of Congress] #WomenInHistory #Herstory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Today in 1606, 420 years ago: Gunpowder Plot: Four of the conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, are executed for treason by hanging, drawing and quartering, for plotting against Parliament and King James.#OnThisDay

Today in 1919, 107 years ago: The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, during a campaign for shorter working hours.#OnThisDay

It is a truth universally acknowledged that #OnThisDay, 28 Jan 1813, a new novel 'by the author of Sense & Sensibility' was published. 'Pride & Prejudice' by Jane Austen has sold over 20 million copies, and had many imitators. During her lifetime, it never carried her name as the author.Bonus photo of Jennifer Ehle as Lizzie Bennett, giving us the side-eye.#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #LiteraryWomen #Histodons

Born #onthisday in 1882, Virginia Woolf. Read about the importance of music in her work in Emma Sutton's essay "Simple Songs: Virginia Woolf and Music" — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/simple-songs-virginia-woolf-and-music #otd

Heute vor 138 Jahren, am 25.1.1888, wurde die Schriftstellerin Virginia Woolf in London geboren. Ihre großartige Biografie des Künstlers und Kunstkritikers der Bloomsbury Group, Roger Fry, zugleich das Porträt einer Epoche, ist bei uns als deutsche Erstübersetzung (herausgegeben und übersetzt von Tobias Schwartz) erschienen, ebenso wie ihr Theaterstück "Freshwater".#VirginiaWoolf #AnDiesemTag #OnThisDay #avivaverlag #Bloomsbury https://www.aviva-verlag.de/autor-innen-co/virginia-woolf/

Today in 2020, 6 years ago: COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei: Municipal health officials in Wuhan announce the first recorded death from COVID-19.#OnThisDay

Recorded #OnThisDay 45 years ago:The Cure - Peel Session 1981The complete session recorded by The Cure on 7 January 1981 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 15th of that month.Tracklist:1. Primary (0:30)2. All Cats Are Grey (4:22)3. Forever (8:11)4. Holy Hour (12:03)https://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-cure-peel-session-1981.html#TheCure #PeelSessions #OTD

#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1939, French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers element 87, which she later names francium. It was the last element to be discovered naturally.Perey was a student of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. She was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize but never received it.#WomenInSTEM #ScienceHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 4 Jan 1972, Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman judge to preside at the Old Bailey (the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales). It had taken 53 years after women were able to be lawyers in the UK. #Histodons#BritishHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory

Today in 1983, 43 years ago: The ARPANET officially changes to using TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol, effectively creating the Internet.#OnThisDay

“My promise is ... to honor women, to protect the most fragile, and to govern for all.”#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 2011, Dilma Rousseff becomes the first woman elected President of Brazil. In the 1970s she'd been a guerrilla and was captured, tortured and jailed by the then dictatorship.

Heute vor 50 Jahren:#Kino #OnThisDay

#OnThisDay, 17 Dec 1905, over 22,000 people join demonstrations across Finland to demand #VotesForWomen. The vote was won in 1906.#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FinnishHistory #Histodons