#OnThisDay, 25 July 1984, cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to walk (and weld) in space.
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On the Road to Oz: Visiting the Matilda Joslyn Gage House #travel #womenshistory #suffrage #ozbooks
The Book Stop · On the Road to Oz: Visiting the Matilda Joslyn Gage HouseA few weeks ago, Mr. CG and I drove to upstate New York to visit the Roycroft Campus, Seneca Falls for women’s history, and Seneca Lake for wine-tasting. It was a busy but relaxing weekend. O…
#OnThisDay, 24 July 1983, women from the Greenham Peace Camp hold a ‘die-in’ in front of politicians, public and military hardware buyers at the International Air Tattoo at the base. They pretend to be dead.
Photo illustrates some Greenham women holding a die-in elsewhere in England, and is taken from Alison Dowell’s archive at Greenham Women Everywhere:
https://greenhamwomeneverywhere.co.uk/portfolio-items/alison-dowells-archive/
#OnThisDay, 23 July 1999, Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to command a Space Shuttle. She went on to command Discovery on the first test flight of a Shuttle after the Columbia disaster.
Watch the lift-off: https://youtu.be/AfqIzfH7r2Y
#OnThisDay, 22 July 1952 (or just after) Prof. Virginia Apgar presents her new way of testing the health of newborn babies to a professional congress.
Apgar’s name is used as a mnemonic for the tests, which assess activity (tone), pulse, grimace, appearance, and respiration. This is a backcronym, where someone has picked words that will create an acronym that is also a specific name.
The Apgar test has saved countless newborn lives.
#OnThisDay, 22 July 1939, Jane Bolin becomes the first African-American woman to be appointed as a judge in the USA.
#OnThisDay, 21 July 1960, Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes the Sri Lankan Prime Minister. She is the first woman in the world to be made a Prime Minister.
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It’s a Monday through Friday daytime camp. Kids go home at the end of the night. They get assigned an instrument usually that they don’t know how to play, put with people they don’t know and that becomes their band. The idea is to keep things very basic, let them explore and just give them confidence! They write a song and then perform it at a local venue on Saturday after the camp! #Punk #WomensHistory
Today in Women’s History, July 19, 1848: The famous two-day Women's Rights Convention opened in Seneca Falls, New York, promoted as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman." Female Quakers organized the meeting with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Many of the attendees opposed the inclusion of women’s suffrage in their Declaration of Sentiments. However, Frederick Douglass, who was the only African American attendee, argued strongly for its inclusion. As a result, attendees ultimately voted to retain the suffrage resolution.
“Seneca Falls Inheritance,” by Miriam Grace Monfredo, is a historical novel that takes place in Seneca Falls at the time of the convention. Lisa Tetrault’s, “The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898,” argues that the notion that Seneca Falls was the birthplace and the feminist movement was promoted, in part, to help Stanton and Anthony maintain centralized control of the movement. She further argues that the Seneca Falls myth downplays or eliminates the role of African American activists and abolitionists in the fight for women’s rights and suffrage.
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Matilda Joslyn Gage Grave in Fayetteville, New York
The radical suffragist left striking words on her tombstone.#womenshistory #suffrage #gravestones #section-Atlas
Matilda Joslyn Gage Grave
Atlas Obscura · Matilda Joslyn Gage GraveThe radical suffragist left striking words on her tombstone.
#OnThisDay, 18 July 1976, Romanian Nadia Comăneci becomes the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 at the Olympics. She broke the scoreboards as they only went to 9.99.
In 1989, having lived under tight surveillance and control since she was a child, she defected to the USA by walking through the night from Romania to Hungary.
#OnThisDay, 17 July 1959 paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovers a fossilized skull from a previously unknown species of hominid - Zinjanthropus boisei.
A CHARMINGLY ILLUSTRATED COLLECTION of short, breezy but well researched and informative biographies of women (and genderfluid people perceived by many as women) whose pioneering achievements have often been overlooked. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/im-not-your-muse-lori-zimmer/1145683646?ean=9780762485383
Barnes & NobleI'm Not Your Muse: Uncovering the Overshadowed Brilliance of Women Artists & Visionaries|HardcoverAn illuminating exploration of 31 incredible women—across art, architecture, dance, literature, and more—whose culture-defining contributions have, until now, been overshadowed by their role as "muses" to history's better-known men. What does it...
Robertine Barry: Canada's Feminist Pioneer
Robertine Barry, writing under the name 'Françoise,' became one of Quebec’s first female journalists in the 1890s. A bold advocate for women's education and suffrage, she used her pen to champion social justice and amplify women's voices in public life. 
#Canada #WomensHistory #Quebec #RobertineBarry
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/robertine-barry-francoise
#OnThisDay, 15 July 1970, Denmark beat Italy 2-0 in the unofficial women's football world cup. 40,000 people attend the match.
FIFA took another 21 years to found the official women's world cup in 1991.
#OnThisDay, 14 July 1885, Sarah E Goode receives the US patent for her cabinet bed. She is among the first African-American women to gain a patent in her own name.
#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.
~ Women during the Eighty Years' War, Ghent & Mary Ambree ~
Mary Ambree (around 1580) was an English army captain from Antwerp, who participated in the liberation of the Belgian city Ghent during the war against Spain.
In 1584 the Spanish captured Ghent, and Ambree, along with several other Dutch and English volunteers, fought to liberate the city. It was said that she was avenging her lover, Sir John Major, a sergeant major who died during the siege.
While she has not been recorded extensively in history, she was featured in ballads and referenced in culture from the 1600s onwards.
Painting : The Famished People after the Relief of the Siege of Leiden, Otto van Veen (for illustration purpose)
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Mary Ambree (around 1580) was an English army captain from Antwerp, who participated in the liberation of the Belgian city Ghent during the war against Spain.
In 1584 the Spanish captured Ghent, and Ambree, along with several other Dutch and English volunteers, fought to liberate the city. It was said that she was avenging her lover, Sir John Major, a sergeant major who died during the siege.
While she has not been recorded extensively in history, she was featured in ballads and referenced in culture from the 1600s onwards.
Painting : The Famished People after the Relief of the Siege of Leiden, Otto van Veen (for illustration purpose)
#eightyyearswar #art #arthistory #history #womenshistory #womenofhistory #historyofwomen #womenfromhistory #painting
~ Women during the Eighty Years' War, The Siege of Sluis & Catharina Rose ~
The siege of Sluis of 1587 took place between 12 June and 4 August 1587, as part of the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604). Its capture by the Spanish formed a significant advance towards the Enterprise of England.
In June 1587, Don Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, Governor-General of the Spanish Netherlands, and commander-in-chief of the Army of Flanders, set his sights on the two remaining rebel ports in Flanders, Ostend and Sluis. The latter had once been a strategic deep-water port, and was a key to the inland waterways of the Flanders coast, and thus to any potential invasion of Britain. After an initial sortie against Ostend, Parma invested Sluis on 12 June 1587, but not in time to prevent a body of four companies of English foot-soldiers reaching the town from Ostend under the command of Sir Roger Williams. On 24 June, the bombardment of the town began.
Catharina Rose was made commander and leader of the women who were given the task of defending the area between the blue tower and the smith towers. This hill was later called Venus-hill or the Women's hill after them. They were allowed to depart after the surrender of the town.
Painting : Kenau Fighting in Defense of Haarlem, by Barend Wijnveld (for illustration purpose)
#eightyyearswar #art #arthistory #history #womenshistory #womenofhistory #historyofwomen #womenfromhistory #painting
The siege of Sluis of 1587 took place between 12 June and 4 August 1587, as part of the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604). Its capture by the Spanish formed a significant advance towards the Enterprise of England.
In June 1587, Don Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, Governor-General of the Spanish Netherlands, and commander-in-chief of the Army of Flanders, set his sights on the two remaining rebel ports in Flanders, Ostend and Sluis. The latter had once been a strategic deep-water port, and was a key to the inland waterways of the Flanders coast, and thus to any potential invasion of Britain. After an initial sortie against Ostend, Parma invested Sluis on 12 June 1587, but not in time to prevent a body of four companies of English foot-soldiers reaching the town from Ostend under the command of Sir Roger Williams. On 24 June, the bombardment of the town began.
Catharina Rose was made commander and leader of the women who were given the task of defending the area between the blue tower and the smith towers. This hill was later called Venus-hill or the Women's hill after them. They were allowed to depart after the surrender of the town.
Painting : Kenau Fighting in Defense of Haarlem, by Barend Wijnveld (for illustration purpose)
#eightyyearswar #art #arthistory #history #womenshistory #womenofhistory #historyofwomen #womenfromhistory #painting
~ Women during the Eighty Years' War, Utrecht & Trijn van Leemput ~
Trijn van Leemput (1530–1607) was a Dutch heroine of the Eighty Years' War against Spain. She led a large group of women in 1577 to the castle of Vredenburg and gave the signal to begin demolishing the castle.
The castle of Vredenburg had been built by emperor Charles V after annexing Utrecht in 1528, and was manned by a Spanish garrison. In 1576, the Pacification of Ghent was signed and the Eighty Years' War began. The Dutch rebels besieged the Vredenburg fortress and, following negotiations, the garrison abandoned the castle in February 1577.
The citizens of Utrecht demanded that the abandoned castle be demolished, but the city government would not allow it, so on May 2 the Utrechters, led by Trijn van Leemput, took matters into their own hands. She is said to have gathered a large group of women and marched on the castle, carrying a makeshift banner made out of a blue apron tied to a broom. At the castle, she signalled for the demolition to begin by removing some bricks from the castle walls. The other Utrechters followed suit, and began breaking down the walls.
She is also said to have fought two Spanish soldiers, who were lodged at her house, at an earlier occasion. After catching them stealing, she threw one down the stairs and threatened the other with a knife.
Painting : Painting of Trijn van Leemput, anonymous
#eightyyearswar #art #arthistory #history #womenshistory #womenofhistory #historyofwomen #womenfromhistory #painting
Trijn van Leemput (1530–1607) was a Dutch heroine of the Eighty Years' War against Spain. She led a large group of women in 1577 to the castle of Vredenburg and gave the signal to begin demolishing the castle.
The castle of Vredenburg had been built by emperor Charles V after annexing Utrecht in 1528, and was manned by a Spanish garrison. In 1576, the Pacification of Ghent was signed and the Eighty Years' War began. The Dutch rebels besieged the Vredenburg fortress and, following negotiations, the garrison abandoned the castle in February 1577.
The citizens of Utrecht demanded that the abandoned castle be demolished, but the city government would not allow it, so on May 2 the Utrechters, led by Trijn van Leemput, took matters into their own hands. She is said to have gathered a large group of women and marched on the castle, carrying a makeshift banner made out of a blue apron tied to a broom. At the castle, she signalled for the demolition to begin by removing some bricks from the castle walls. The other Utrechters followed suit, and began breaking down the walls.
She is also said to have fought two Spanish soldiers, who were lodged at her house, at an earlier occasion. After catching them stealing, she threw one down the stairs and threatened the other with a knife.
Painting : Painting of Trijn van Leemput, anonymous
#eightyyearswar #art #arthistory #history #womenshistory #womenofhistory #historyofwomen #womenfromhistory #painting