#otd

45 posts · Last used 11h

Back to Timeline
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 13h 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
10
0
25
@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
14
0
34
@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
43
0
55
Boosted by hypebot @hypebot@tacocat.space
@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
185
0
189
@bethroots@mindly.social · Apr 10, 2026
#OTD 9 April. Two brothers, cousins to my grandmother, shared a birthday. Henry Martini was born in 1863, in St. Louis, Missouri. Eugene Martini was born in Centralia, Illinois, in 1874. Their lives were very different. Henry went into mining and eventually become a coal mine superintendent. He and his wife had 15 children and many descendants who are DNA matches. Eugene, a retail salesman, married twice, losing a wife and daughter to early deaths. Two children grew to adulthood and one had children. So far no DNA matches to his branch have been found. #genealogy
0
0
0
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social · Apr 09, 2026
#OtD 9 Apr 1968 Zofia Kossak-Szczucka died aged 78. After helping Jews escape the Holocaust, Zofia was arrested and sent to Auschwitz but was released thanks to the Polish Underground https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10876/zofia-kossak-szczucka-dies
7
0
9
Boosted by hypebot @hypebot@goingdark.social
@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
141
0
143
@thomas@mastodon.trueten.de · Mar 16, 2026
Heute vor 58 Jahren: Massaker von My Lai #Vietnam #CapitalismIsADeathCult #OtD
2
0
8
@bethroots@mindly.social · Mar 15, 2026
#OTD 14 March 1955, Esstella Margaret Crispen Pitcher, age 55, died in Benton Harbor, Michigan. I have always wished that I had known this sweet sister of my grandmother. All I know of her is through the family photos and stories. Esstella had scarlet fever as a child and was fragile throughout her life. She married Henry Pitcher and they had one daughter. Henry died two years before Esstella. Both were gone too soon. https://scrappinmyhistory.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-favorite-photo-52-ancestors.html #genealogy
3
1
2
@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026
Happy π Day! And Albert Einstein was born #OTD 147 years ago! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi Isaac Newton used infinite series to compute π to 15 digits, later writing "I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these computations". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#cite_note-Newton-60 "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Einstein at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1630 #books #mathematicsDay
50
0
62
@kcm@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 01, 2026
New today on my blog: a quick look at some things which happened in March 1926. https://zenmischief.com/2026/03/march-1926/ #1926 #otd #March #blog #zenmischief
0
0
2
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2026
#OtD 1 Mar 1954 a group of students at Indiana University started the Green Feather Movement to protest against a McCarthyist attempt to ban Robin Hood from school books for promoting communism https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8111/green-feather-movement
5
1
12
@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
108
0
35
@wrkclasshistory@bird.makeup · Feb 23, 2026
#OtD 23 Feb 1932 a riot broke out on Old Market Street in Bristol during a protest against the government's 10% cut to unemployment benefits in the middle of the Great Depression. 3-15,000 people were attacked by police but they fought back https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9557/old-market-riot
200
0
1
@wrkclasshistory@bird.makeup · Feb 24, 2026
#OtD 24 Feb 1915 Amelio Robles Avila, a trans officer in Emiliano Zapata's Mexican revolutionary army, intervened in close combat in Salto de Valadez and Mazatlan, Guerrero. His unit battled a government column from noon and defeated them by evening https://www.tiktok.com/@workingclasshistory/video/7121709454348881158?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7461956505605391894
96
0
7
@wrkclasshistory@bird.makeup · Feb 23, 2026
#OtD 23 Feb 2004 in Trebišov, Slovakia, police attacked unemployed workers, mostly Roma, protesting welfare cuts. Police beat & tear gassed, then tortured people with batons and electric prods but unemployed kept up struggle & won improvements https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9558/slovakian-police-attack-roma
172
0
17
@wrkclasshistory@bird.makeup · Feb 23, 2026
#OtD 23 Feb 1864 300 female collar laundry workers at 14 firms went on strike in Troy, NY demanding pay increases of 20-25%, and better health and safety. After less than a week, they won https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9555/troy-collar-laundry-workers-strike
304
0
24
@Armadillosoft@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026
15
0
3
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026
#OtD 23 Feb 2005 France introduced a law directing schools to teach "positive" aspects of French colonialism. France invaded places including Morocco, Algeria, Vietnam, Cambodia, Tunisia, Senegal, the Caribbean, US, Canada and others and enslaved 1.3m https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9559/french-colonialism-teaching-law
7
0
11
@BibPortRoyal@mastodon.world · Feb 23, 2026
#Éphéméride : il y a 105 ans (1921) naissait Jean Mesnard #OTD
0
0
1