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

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

Gertrude Elion, joint winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, was born #OTD in 1918. During her career she developed multiple life-saving drugs https://www.compoundchem.com/2018/01/23/elion/

15 Jan 1559: After weeks of preparation, Elizabeth I is crowned at #Westminster #otd on the date chosen by John Dee #astrologer

@TLisaB Dann wird dir diese Sendung von Radio1 gefallen: knapp 2 Stunden Hommage an David Bowie.Mir hat sie gefallen.https://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/sendungen/400/2601/260109_sounds_stories_30466.html

William Wilkie Collins (geboren 8. Januar 1824 und gestorben 23. September 1889 in London)#otd #Literatur #Buchstodon

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

48 years ago todaySiouxsie and the Banshees at the Nashville Rooms, London, on 7 January 1978.Photograph: Ray Stevenson#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #gothpunkrock #postpunk #siouxsieandthebanshees #history #punkrockhistory #otd

#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

Remember #Lemmy Kilmister: * 24.12.1945 - † 28.12.2015 »#Rassismus ist das Übel unserer Welt. #Nazi sein bedeutet, dass du verloren hast, bevor du anfängst. Du kannst nicht gewinnen. Du bist nur dumm.« #RiP #OtD #Metal

#Hörtipp#OTD #20251218date#ZeitzeichenWDR #WDR #ZeitzeichenDer Weiße Hai: Urängste im Kinosaal https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/zeitzeichen/audio-der-weisse-hai-uraengste-im-kinosaal-100.html (@wikinaut)

#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