Notices tagged with otd, page 5

#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.

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#OnThisDay, 29 Jan 1891, Liliʻuokalani is sworn in as Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

She is the first, and only, regnant queen of the country and is deposed in a coup in 1893 that was supported by the US marines.

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Remembering Tom Verlaine, frontman of the influential New York punk rock band Television, died in Manhattan 2 years ago today at the age of 73 after a short illness.

📸 Richard E. Aaron

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British crystallographer, pacifist, and prison reform activist Kathleen Lonsdale was born #OTD in 1903.

She proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray diffraction methods to elucidate the structure of hexamethylbenzene. She was the first to use Fourier spectral methods while solving the structure of hexachlorobenzene in 1931.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Lonsdale

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Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren died #OTD in 2002.

She is best known for several children's book series, featuring Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, and the Six Bullerby Children (Children of Noisy Village in the US), and for the children's fantasy novels Mio, My Son; Ronia the Robber's Daughter; and The Brothers Lionheart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Lindgren

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#OTD in 1860.

The first of Charles Dickens' literary sketches generally titled The Uncommercial Traveller appears in his magazine All the Year Round.

He seems to have chosen the title and persona of the Uncommercial Traveller as a result of a speech he gave on 22 December 1859 to the Commercial Travellers' School in London, in his role as honorary chairman and treasurer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uncommercial_Traveller

The Uncommercial Traveller at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/914

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Born #onthisday in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Read an account of him at just 8 years old. As well as dazzling the narrator with his musical genius Mozart “would also sometimes run about the room with a stick between his legs by way of horse” — https://buff.ly/37uRoJ7 #OTD

English mathematician Henry Briggs died #OTD in 1630.

He is notable for changing the original logarithms invented by John Napier into common (base 10) logarithms, which are sometimes known as Briggsian logarithms in his honour. The specific algorithm for long division in modern use was introduced by Briggs c. 1600 AD. Historically', the "common logarithm" was known by its Latin name logarithmus decimalis or logarithmus decadis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Briggs_(mathematician)

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#OtD 26 Jan 1944 Angela Davis was born in Birmingham, AL. Revolutionary, civil rights organiser and third woman to make the FBI's most wanted list, Davis was also associated with the Black Panthers. Works available here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/if-they-come-in-the-morning-angela-davis

#OnThisDay, 25 Jan 1890, American journalist Nellie Bly arrives back in New York to huge crowds, becoming the first *person* to circumnavigate the world in under 80 days (she took 72).

Read all about Nellie and the 'stunt girl' reporters who made front page news in the 1880s-90s in our new blog post here: https://carvehername.org.uk/nellie-bly-stunt-girl-reporters/

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#OtD 25 Jan 1995 Manchester United football legend Eric Cantona kung fu kicked a fascist football hooligan, who attended far-right NF and BNP rallies and had convictions for violent crime including attacking an anti-fascist. Commemorative merch here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/football

Paradiso, Canto XIV. Dante and Beatrice move into the fifth heaven — an illustration from 1880 by Gustave Doré, who died three years later #onthisday in 1883.

More Dante illustrations by Doré (and others) here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dante-divine-comedy-in-art #otd

#OtD 22 Jan 1891 Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia. His key contribution was his theory of hegemony, which describes how the capitalist class maintains its power through its domination of culture. Commemorative merch here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/antonio-gramsci

First pages of a beautiful art nouveau edition of an essay on gardens by the Renaissance philosopher Francis Bacon, who was born #onthisday in 1561. Read the whole thing here: https://buff.ly/30KLqBx #otd

#OtD 21 Jan 1876 Olga Taratuta, veteran Jewish Ukrainian metalworker and revolutionary, was born. Arrested and jailed many times under the tsar, she was then arrested repeatedly by the Bolsheviks until executed in 1938. This is a short biography: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9374/olga-taratuta

#OTD in 1899.

The French actress Sarah Bernhardt, having taken over management of the Paris theatre she renames the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, opens it in the title rôle of Victorien Sardou's La Tosca. On May 20 she premières an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, with herself in the title rôle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Tosca

Victorien Sardou: La Tosca at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19540

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#OTD in 1835.

Abolitionist Susan Paul officiates at a meeting of the New England Anti-Slavery Society (NEASS) in Boston. Later in the year, her Memoir of James Jackson becomes the earliest-known published narrative by an African-American woman and the first account documenting the life of a free black child in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Paul

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#OnThisDay, 21 Jan 1648, Margaret Brent demands the right to sit on the Maryland council in her dual roles as a land-owner and Lord Baltimore's attorney.

She was denied, and left saying she "Protested against all proceedings in this present assembly unless she may be present and have vote."

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#OtD 20 Jan 1934 Nazi Germany introduced a law designating capitalists as "fuhrers" of their enterprise and requiring "employees and labourers [to] owe him faithfulness". Along with other measures it helped funnel income from workers to big business. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9269/nazis-ban-collective-bargaining

Austrian-born American actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr died #OTD in 2000.

Lamarr wanted to aid the Allied forces during World War II. She shared her concept for using “frequency hopping” with the U.S. Navy and codeveloped a patent with Antheil 1941. Today, her innovation helped make possible a wide range of wireless communications technologies, including Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth.

Below, U.S. patent 2,292,387 granted on August 11, 1942, under her legal name Hedy Kiesler Markey.

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