#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1906, British composer Ethel Smyth's opera 'The Wreckers' opens in Leipzig. Appalled by cuts made by the production, she removes all copies of the score from the orchestra pit to prevent further performances.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #MusicHistory #Histodons

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#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1865, Dr Mary Edwards Walker receives the Medal of Honor from US President Andrew Johnson for her services as a field surgeon in the American Civil War.

A lifelong "dress reformer", she wore trousers under short dresses and eventually switched to trousers and jackets. She was frequently arrested for her choice. "I don't wear men's clothes, I wear my own clothes," she said.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInWar #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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#OnThisDay, 10 Nov 1917, 41 suffragists are arrested outside the White House in Washington DC.

This was the largest number of women arrested on the same day. They were charged with “blocking traffic” on the wide pavement of Pennsylvania Avenue.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory

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#OnThisDay, 8 Nov 1938, Crystal Bird Fauset is elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, becoming the first African-American woman state legislator. She introduces 9 bills and 3 amendments in the year she is there, before resigning to become an assistant state director.

Read more about Crystal Bird Fauset here: https://hsp.org/blogs/question-of-the-week/who-was-the-first-african-american-woman-to-be-elected-to-the-pennsylvania-state-legislature

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Dubliners! If you're in or around Dublin 9 tomorrow afternoon, get to Ballymun Library for a talk on the amazing Sarah Cecilia Harrison - artist, activist, and first woman to be a councillor on (then) Dublin Corporation.

Booking is required: https://www.dublincity.ie/events/sarah-cecilia-harrison-her-life-and-campaigning-work

#Dublin #MastoDaoine #History #WomenInHistory #IrishHistory #LocalHistory

“I may be the first woman member of Congress but I won’t be the last.”

#OnThisDay, 7 Nov 1916, Jeanette Rankin is elected to the US House of Representatives. She was the first woman elected to the House.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 5 Nov 1872, suffragists Susan B Anthony and 13 other women illegally vote in the US Presidential election.

Anthony is subsequently arrested and put on trial. She is found guilty, but refuses to pay the fine. The judge decides not to jail her.

Nine of the voters were initially reported as a "minor topic".

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons #VotesForWomen

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#OnThisDay, 3 Nov 1992, voters in Illinois, USA, make Carol Moseley Braun the first African-American woman to be a US Senator. She takes up office in 1993.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 3 Nov 1914, American Mary Phelps Jacob is granted a US patent for the brassiere.

Here's a brief thread on her life. 👇

Born to descendants of founding families, Jacob had a gilded life until WW1. To manage his PTSD, her first husband turned to alcohol, gambling and following fire engines so he could watch buildings burn.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #FashionHistory #Histodons

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