#DoraMaar, #Barcelona, 1932. #photography #womeninhistory #womenartists ...

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#OnThisDay, 10 Sept 1972, American Doreen Wilber wins Olympic gold in women's archery. It was the first time archery has been included in the Games since 1920.

Wilber took up the sport after her husband was given an archery set. For a decade, she never lost a competition at State level, and set national or world records 18 times.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #AmericanHistory #OlympicWomen

#OnThisDay, 9 Sept 1966, Constance Baker Motley became the first Black woman to be a US federal judge when she was sworn in.

She had been the first Black female lawyer to argue a case at the Supreme Court in 1962. And she’d been the first woman to be president of the borough of Manhattan in 1965.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory

#OnThisDay, 4 Sept 1970, Russian Natalia Makarova is the first prima ballerina to defect from the then Soviet Union. A Tony and Olivier winning dancer, she returned to Russia after the fall of the USSR in 1989 to see her family again.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #ColdWarStories

#OnThisDay, 1 Sept 1942, Valentine Blanche Charlet arrives in occupied France as a Special Operations Executive agent. The SOE supported the French Resistance against the Nazi occupation.

Arrested a month later, she escaped in a mass prison break before hiding in a monastery. She got back to the UK in 1944.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #WorldWar2

#OnThisDay, 1 Sept 1878, Emma Nutt becomes the first female phone operator. Within a decade, the job had become women's work. And no longer valued the same way.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 1 Sept 1773, Phillis Wheatley's collection of poetry is published in London: the first known collection by an African-American poet.

Read more about her life, and selected poems at: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley (CW: contains descriptions of enslavement)

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory

#OnThisDay, 30 Aug 1918, Socialist Revolutionary Fanya Kaplan attempts to kill Lenin after he dissolves the Russian Constituent Assembly. She's executed four days later.

Her action was a contributory factor in Lenin triggering the Bolshevik Red Terror, in which perhaps 100,000 people were killed.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #SovietHistory

#OnThisDay, 29 Aug 1930, the last 36 St Kildan islanders left for the Scottish mainland. Williamina Barclay was the island's nurse and had raised their request to leave. She then oversaw the evacuation as the government's representative on the island.

Watch footage of the evacuation here: https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/0793
And read first hand testimony of why the islanders left: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/24/last-man-st-kilda-evacuation

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #ScottishHistory

#OnThisDay, 28 Aug 1917, ten of the Silent Sentinels are arrested outside the US White House.

The sentinels were campaigning for women's suffrage, and picketed the White House in silence for two and a half years. Many were assaulted, arrested or jailed during their protest.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #AmericanHistory #VotesForWomen

#OnThisDay, 27 Aug 1927, Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby sign a letter to the government of Canada. It starts the “Persons case” that decides whether a woman counted as a person.

The case finds women are ‘persons’, and leads to women being appointed to the Canadian Senate.

#CanadianHistory #WomenInHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 25 Aug 1932, Amelia Earhart successfully lands in Newark, New Jersey, to become the first woman to fly solo across the USA.

Earhart breaks a series of first flights, before disappearing during an attempt to fly around the world in 1937.

#WomenPilots #WomenInHistory #Histodons #FlashbackFriday

#OnThisDay, 25 Aug 1804, Alicia Meynell (aka Alicia Thornton) rides at the York races in England. Side-saddle.

She is now recognised as the first woman racing jockey.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #ThisGirlCan #EnglishHistory #FlashbackFriday

#OnThisDay, 24 Aug 2018, Geneviève Callerot finally accepts the légion d'honneur for her and her family's wartime efforts in the French Resistance.

She and her family helped over 200 people escape occupied France. She had previously refused the honour until it included her family.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #WorldWar2 #FrenchHistory #ThrowbackThursday

#OnThisDay, 24 Aug 1896, an unknown woman cyclist has a beer at the bar in New Jersey - making headlines in the New York Times.

Chapeau!

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #Cycling #WomenCycling #AmericanHistory #ThrowbackThursday

#OnThisDay, 23 Aug 1941, American Virginia Hall arrives in France to work for the British Special Operations Executive for 15 months. The SOE supported the French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

Hall was on the “most wanted” list as 'the limping lady', as she had a false leg due to a shooting accident before the war. She escaped over the Pyrenees to Spain. She then returned to France with the American Office of Strategic Services.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #WorldWar2 #AmericanHistory

#OnThisDay, 22 Aug 1943, Yvonne Cormeau parachutes into France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supported the French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

She worked for 13 months and was never captured. You can hear her story on the Imperial War Museum site. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80007171

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #WorldWar2 #WomenAtWar #SOE #EuropeanHistory

“I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.”

#OnThisDay, 19 Aug 1588*, Queen Elizabeth I of England addresses the troops at Tilbury as they prepare to defend England against the Spanish Armada.

Her reported speech is best seen as propaganda establishing her as a symbolic Britannia. https://www.elizabethfiles.com/the-spanish-armada-8-elizabeths-tilbury-speech/4065/

#WomenInHistory #TudorHistory #EnglishHistory #Elizabethan

*date converted from OS calendar

#OnThisDay, 18 Aug 1920, women in the US gain the right to vote when the 19th amendment is ratified by Tennessee, the 36th state to ratify it.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #AmericanHistory #VotesForWomen #FlashbackFriday

#OnThisDay, 18 Aug 1892, cycling enthusiasts agree to form a cycling club for women in New Zealand. The Atalanta Cycling Club sought to reduce prejudice against women cyclists.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #NZHistory #Aotearoa #NewZealand #Cycling