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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 14h ago
#OnThisDay, 27 April 1925, Edna Ferber wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel 'So Big'. She donates the prize money to the Authors League to support sick and elderly authors. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 2d ago
#OnThisDay, 25 Apr 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro becomes the first woman to be elected President of Nicaragua. She served for six years, stabilising the economy. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CentralAmericanHistory #Histodons
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 5d ago
#OnThisDay, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected their tradition of abstention in order to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #Histodons
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · Apr 20, 2026
#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903. The committee had planned to only award the Nobel to Pierre and Henri. Committee member and Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler alerted Pierre Curie to the plan. Pierre insisted Marie also receive the prize. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons
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@mediocratese@climatejustice.social · Apr 18, 2026
#OnThisDay 2020 IMHO The best summation of #Covid19 still. (unfortunately I do not know the artist)
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@FibroJedi@gamepad.club · Apr 10, 2026
I forgot to post my #DailyDoodle for 9th April. #OnThisDay in 1910, Halley's Comet was seen from New Zealand. #doodle #ColouredPencils #handdrawn
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@FibroJedi@gamepad.club · Apr 08, 2026
A slightly uncovered female hip from a statue Sensitive
Well, this was a challenge. I read about various events from the 8th April. I chose to sketch only this part of the "Venus de Milo" statue, which was found 8th April 1820 on the island of Milos. Trying to draw this material quickly was difficult. And as with most of my #DailyDoodle posts, the number 8 and 4 are in the drawing too. Apologies for the many inaccuracies! (PS I'll add ALT shortly) #datedoodle #onthisday
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · Apr 02, 2026
#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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@creaturedouble@social.horrorhub.club · Mar 28, 2026
March 28 is a beautiful little graveyard. Hitchcock’s The Birds premiered in New York in 1963. Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm opened regionally in 1979 after studios passed on it. The Changeling arrived in U.S./Canada in 1980 with George C. Scott. And Stephen King’s The Green Mile began its six-part run on this date in 1996. Art-house dread, cult horror, ghost-story class, and paperback doom all in one night. #HorrorHistory #OnThisDay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(film)
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@victorianweb@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 10, 2026
#OnThisDay many moons ago.... bright lights, crowds and flags for a celebration: "London Bridge, Night of the Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales, March 10th 1863" by W. Holman Hunt https://www.victorianweb.org/painting/whh/paintings/34.html #paintings
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@Sfwmson@universeodon.com · Feb 28, 2026
#OnThisDay #2024 Just two years ago, SCOTUS unleashed a madman and a Putin Puppet. Comments from Judge Luttig on the SCOTUS decision ~ “There was no reason in this world for the Supreme Court to take this case. The three judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia had written a masterful opinion denying the president’s claims of absolute immunity. Under the constitutional laws of the United States, there has never been an argument that a former president is immune from prosecution for crimes that he committed while in office. On a more practical level, of course, the Supreme Court is capable of deciding this very quickly in time that the former president can be tried before the election. But today’s decision makes that much more unlikely.”
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@alexskunz@mas.to · Feb 26, 2026
The Grand Canyon was established as a National Park on this day in 1919. Happy Birthday! Photo made from Yavapai Point along the South Rim. Way too easy! :) https://photos.alex-kunz.com/media/019b5dcd-110c-775e-bdae-4479a6f1df44 #LandscapePhotography #GrandCanyon #NationalParks #OTD #Twilight #Arizona #OnThisDay #ColoradoRiver
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@CLondoner92@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 23, 2026
#OnThisDay 23 February 2016, Queen Elizabeth II visited the under-construction Bond Street station as Boris Johnson, then Mayor of #London, announced Crossrail would be renamed the Elizabeth line in her honour. Joined by #Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin and senior transport figures, she toured the site and was presented with a commemorative roundel. The railway, later known as the Elizabeth line, was expected to transform travel across London and the South East, supporting thousands of jobs and new homes while boosting the economy. Running from Reading and #Heathrow to Shenfield and Abbey Wood, it was designed to increase rail capacity and carry more than half a million passengers a day when fully open. https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2016/february/crossrail-to-become-the-elizabeth-line-in-honour-of-her-majesty-the-queen
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@Sonikku@techhub.social · Feb 21, 2026
#Gaming #RetroGaming #Nintendo #NES #Pics #History #OnThisDay
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@Sonikku@techhub.social · Feb 21, 2026
40 years ago today the original “Legend of Zelda” game was released for the Famicom Disk System in Japan, and would come out the following year on the NES. Happy 40th, Link. #Gaming #RetroGaming #Nintendo #NES #Pics #History #OnThisDay
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · Feb 11, 2026
#OnThisDay, 11 Feb 1989, the Rev Barbara Harris is consecrated, the first woman to become a Bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Due to death threats, she was advised to wear a bulletproof vest at the ceremony: she declined. "I certainly don't want to be one of the boys. I want to offer my peculiar gifts as a black woman... a sensitivity and an awareness that comes out of more than a passing acquaintance with oppression." #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BlackHistoryMonth #Histodons
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@onthisday@mastodon.social · Feb 02, 2026
Today in 1920, 106 years ago: the Soviet Union recognizes the independence of Estonia. #OnThisDay
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@onthisday@mastodon.social · Feb 02, 2026
Today in 2005, 21 years ago: The Government of Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act. This legislation would become law on July 20, 2005, legalizing same-sex marriage. #OnThisDay
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@tmf@mastodon.world · Feb 02, 2025
In 1971 we said farewell to Count Domenico Agusta, who gave us enduring motorcycle art in the form of MV. #triumph #motorcycle #onthisday https://triumphmotorcycleforum.com/t/2-february-domenico-agusta-rides-into-the-sunset/3672?u=octoberon
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · Jan 30, 2026
#OnThisDay, 30 Jan 1913, Ida B Wells forms the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, Illinois, to give a voice to Black women who had been excluded by national suffrage organisations because of their race. In March 1913, the club headed to Washington DC to take part in the national Women’s Suffrage Procession. They were told to march at the back, in a segregated section, so as not to upset white southern women. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons 1/2
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