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Every day women have, and are, making history. ​Follow for daily posts.

We started the project in 2017, on a bus home from a Womens March.

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, 8 Jun 1944, Violette Szabo returns to occupied France by parachute for her second posting with the British Special Operations Executive. She is captured two days later after a gun battle, tortured and sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp. She is executed in Jan 1945.

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, 5 Jun 1915, 12,000 people march in Copenhagen to celebrate Denmark's new Constitution giving women the right to vote and stand for election.

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, 5 Jun 1833, Ada Lovelace meets Charles Babbage, triggering their collaboration on the Analytical Engine.

Image by Sydney Padua

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, 4 Jun 1913, British suffragette Emily Davison steps in front of the King's horse at the Epson Derby: she dies four days later.

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, 3 Jun 1924, Alfonsina Strada crosses the finish line of the Giro d'Italia. She remains the only woman to have officially ridden a Grand Tour.

At one point she had been disqualified on time grounds but was allowed to continue without the option of prizes. She finished ahead of the lantern rouge (the last cyclist to finish).

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, 2 Jun 1863, Harriet Tubman leads Unionist troops in the Combahee River raid in South Carolina, freeing over 700 enslaved people.

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"There can be no doubt that we are witnessing another historic advance in the struggle against discrimination in our society, this time against discrimination on grounds of sex."

, 29 May 1970, the Equal Pay Act receives Royal Assent in the UK. It's seen as the lasting legacy of Barbara Castle MP, and means men and women doing the same job should receive the same pay.

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"You need not be afraid to give us our rights for fear we will take too much, for we won't take more than our pint'll hold."

, 29 May 1851, Sojourner Truth addresses the Womens Rights Convention in Ohio. Her speech is commonly known as 'arn't I a woman' although that comes from a dubious transcript that uses racial tropes. https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/compare-the-speeches/

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, 28 May 1944, Sonia Butt parachutes into occupied France as an explosives expert for the British Special Operations Executive. She had turned 20 two weeks earlier.

She trained the maquis and coordinated sabotage operations. She was never captured.

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, 24 May 1976, at least 400 women walk out on strike at the Trica factory in London, demanding equal pay with their male colleagues. Around 100 men come out on strike in support of the women.

The strike lasts 21 weeks before the American owners of the factory agree to all demands.

@workingclasshistory

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, 23 May 1988, four women storm the BBC news studio whilst the news is live on air, protesting the introduction of Section 28. Section 28 banned the “promotion of homosexuality” by local government in the UK, and was intended to stop LGBT+ campaigns for equal rights.

It was not repealed until 2003.

Watch footage from the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZdpNjJakiI&ab_channel=BBCStories

A newspaper headline from the Daily Mirror, reading 'Beeb man sits on lesbian'

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, 23 May 1907, 19 women take their seats in the Finnish Parliament. They are the first women Parliamentarians in the world.

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, 23 May 1430, Jeanne d'Arc, fighting in the rearguard, is pulled from her horse and captured by the Burgundians at the siege of Compiègne. She is then sold as a prisoner to the British, who put her on trial for heresy.

Learn more about Jeanne’s rise and fall here: https://carvehername.org.uk/joan-of-arc-7-may-1429/

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So, we missed a week of posts. Here's a catch-up of . 1 of 2.

15 May 1946, Camilla Williams makes her operatic debut. Read more here: https://carvehername.org.uk/eight-famous-women-singers/

16 May 2005, the Kuwaiti parliament vote to give women full political rights.

17 May 1863, María Rosalía Rita de Castro 's poetry is published, the first publication by a single author in Galician for 400 years. 17 May is now celebrated as Galician literature day.

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Cacth-up 2 of 2.

18 May 1991, cosmonaut Helen Sharman becomes the first British person in space.

19 May 1952, Lillian Hellman writes to the House of UnAmerican Activities refusing to testify against others. She is blacklisted by Hollywood.

20 May 2016, Tsai Ing-wen is sworn in as President of Taiwan. She is the first woman to hold the role, and is re-elected in 2020.

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@grb090423 We make the point about her being the first British person as we found the coverage of Tim Peake's 2015 mission as if he were the first British person in space deeply misogynistic. It literally wrote her out of history.

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@grb090423 Thanks for clarifying! The challenge we have in running this account is we have to be generalists as we cover such a range. Specialists providing feedback helps us!

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@grb090423 We actively welcome replies that add to what we're working on, like yours.

Reply-guys get muted so fast. ;)

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, 21 May 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman - and only the second person - to fly solo and without stops across the Atlantic.

She lands unexpectedly in a field in Ireland. There’s some wonderful images of her in the nearest village here: https://joecampbellart.com/2015/03/12/amelia-earhart-in-ireland-solo-atlantic-crossing-may-21st-1932/

Watch newsreel of her taking off here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-itPeJOyzI

@histodons

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, 11 May 1978, Margaret Brewer becomes the first woman to reach the rank of General in the US Marines.

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“I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as much as a man, I have a right to have as much as a man.”

, 9 May 1867, Sojourner Truth addresses the American Equal Rights Association, arguing for equal rights for black women.

Read a brief history of Truth’s life. CW for the article as it includes mention of slavery and abuse: https://wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-divided/antebellum/sojourner-truth/

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, 9 May 1922, the International Astronomical Union formally adopts Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system. It is still in use.

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"The mentalitiy in the 1960s was that women weren't smart or strong enough to be jockeys. But I provied that a woman could do the job."

, 2 May 1970, Diane Crump becomes the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby.

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, 1 May 1944, South African Phyllis Latour parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive in supporting the French resistance.

She's never captured.

As of 2021, she was alive and well in New Zealand.

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Very early , 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she is never captured. She died in 2011.

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