#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress.

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#NASA #Artemis II Launch. Astronauts Begin Historic Journey Around Moon

Astronaut embarking on the journey is veteran mission specialist Christina Koch, making her the first woman to travel around the Moon.⁣

Artemis II's crew: commander Wiseman, pilot Glover and mission specialist Christina Koch. A second mission specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency.

The mission is first crewed flight of Nasa's gigantic #Space Launch System rocket and the #Orion capsule.

Astronauts will test how the Orion handles. This will involve manually flying the capsule in Earth orbit to practice steering and lining up the spacecraft for future Moon landings. They will then head out to a point thousands of kilometers beyond the Moon to check Orion's life‑support, propulsion, power and navigation systems.

https://www.womansworld.com/life/artemis-ii-launch-tomorrow-how-to-watch-nasa-moon-mission-live

https://www.space.com/news/live/artemis-2-nasa-moon-mission-launch-updates-march-31-2026

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While every intelligent man in the Union is reading and saying every day of his life that unless our children are trained to intelligence and virtue, the nation is ruined; yet there is nothing else for which so little interest is felt, or so little done.

Catharine Beecher

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#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1988, Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

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“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."

#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was drafting the Declaration of Independence. He declined her suggestions.

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The Bronze Age Textile Revolution

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/03/30/the-bronze-age-textile-revolution/

Should we be having firms competing on who can surveil users the best, or who can undercut their workers the most, or do we want to be having companies compete on dimensions or privacy that are actually better serving consumers or workers?

Lina Khan

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#OnThisDay, 30 Mar 1982, Bertha Wilson was sworn in to the Canadian Supreme Court. She is the first woman appointed to sit on it.

When she had started at law school in 1955, she was reportedly advised to 'take up crocheting' instead.

Her 1988 ruling decriminalised abortion in Canada.

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