Leo Kofler, who dis? Marxistischer Theoretiker, #OTD 1907 geboren, der viele Strömungen der Linken herausforderte, die Frankfurter Schule ein Jahrzehnt vor Perry Anderson kritisierte und in seiner Originalität verkannt wurde. Seine »Interventionen« entdecken: dietzberlin.de/produkt/interve…

Zum Einstieg hören: Christoph Jünke, Hrsg. unseres Kofler-Bandes, bei 99zueins zu Koflers Texten + dessen Blick auf Marxismus, Theorie und Praxis, bürgerliche Gesellschaft und Stalinismus: youtube.com/live/_BMjiTi42Tg

#OnThisDay, 23 Apr 2015, Loretta Lynch is confirmed as Attorney General of the US – the first Black woman to hold the post. It's exactly 143 years after Charlotte E Ray became the first Black woman lawyer in the US.

Read more: carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-…

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

#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

#OnThisDay, 19 Apr 1967, Kathrine Switzer becomes the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon as a registered runner, despite the organiser physically trying to stop her.

She ran it again in 2017, 50 years later.

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

#OnThisDay, 16 Apr 1912, Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly a plane across the English Channel.

Quimby was the first American woman to receive a pilot’s licence and made her living doing exhibition flights in the US. She also made money as the advertising face of a grape juice. She died in July 1912 when her plane pitched forward at 1,000 feet and she was thrown out.

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

#OnThisDay, 13 Apr 1985, Danuta Danielsson hits a neo-Nazi with her handbag in Växjö, Sweden. Yes, that photo by Hans Runesson.

Danuta had been born in Poland in 1947, after her Jewish mother had survived a concentration camp.

#EuropeanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 13 Apr 1933 Ruth Bryan Owen is appointed US ambassador to Denmark.
As well as being the first woman to be appointed as a US Ambassador, Owen had been the first woman elected to Congress by the state of Florida in 1928.

Earlier in the 1920s she had been one of a number of women directing films in the silent era.

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

Very early #OnThisDay, 12 Apr 1944, Odette Wilen parachutes into France to work as a wireless operator for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supports the French resistance.

Wireless operators were at the greatest risk of discovery, as their position could be triangulated whenever they were transmitting messages back to London.

Wilen evades capture by minutes and escapes over the Pyrenees. She lives until 2015.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

“Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina.”

Died #OTD, 11 Apr 2013, Maria Tallchief - the first prima ballerina of Native American descent (Osage).

We'd love a date for her stage debut.

#OnThisDay, 11 Apr 1689, Mary Stuart is crowned Queen of England and Ireland after her father King James II is deposed. A month later she is also crowned Queen of Scotland.

She co-reigns with her husband, William III, including ruling in his absences, until her death in 1694.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 9 Apr 1939, Marian Anderson sings to thousands for free in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Millions more tuned in on the radio.

Howard University had wanted to book the biggest concert venue in DC, Constitution Hall, for her. But the Daughters of the American Revolution, who owned it, would only let white performers appear on their stage.

Read more here: carvehername.org.uk/marian-and…

Newsreel of the time: youtu.be/XF9Quk0QhSE

#WomenInHistory #History #OTD #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Marian Anderson sings in Washington: 9 April 1939

On 9 April 1939, Marian Anderson stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC and sang "My Country, 'Tis of Thee". Learn why she sang there.

^{MP&MH (Carve Her Name)}

#OTD, 50 years ago, the world lost the fabulous, audacious and smart #JosephineBaker.

Instead of some sexy banana dance picture, here she is doing some gardening in her Paris home.

Edit: Error correction (I believed the paper newspaper from today, but just learned better on the internet) - she did not die on the 8th of April, but on the 12th.

#OnThisDay, 7 Apr 1141, Matilda is legally recognised as ruler of England in her own right. Her coronation never happens.

She was appointed heir by her father Henry I, then usurped by her cousin Stephen after Henry’s death. The civil war between the cousins is known as the Anarchy and lasted from 1138 to 1153.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory
#EnglishHistory #AnarchyInTheUK #Histodons

Remembering Wendy O. Williams, lead singer of the punk rock band Plasmatics, died on this day in 1998 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at age 48 in Storrs, Connecticut.

#punkrock #wendyowilliams #womanofpunk #plasmatics #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Why is a bridge in Sarajevo named after two women?

#OnThisDay, 5 Apr 1992, Suada Dilberović, a Muslim, and Olga Sučić, a Catholic, were killed whilst on a peace protest in Sarajevo during the outbreak of the Bosnian war. They are the first civilian casualties in what became the Siege of Sarajevo. The siege lasted 1,425 days, and over 5,000 civilians were killed during it.

The bridge they died on has been renamed in their memory.

#WomenInHistory #EuropeanHistory #OTD #History #Histodons

#OnthisDay, 5 Apr 1971, Frances Phipps was the first woman to reach the North Pole, flying crew on a small plane to install a navigation beacon.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenExplorers #NorthPole #OTD #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1991, Rita Johnson becomes the first female premier of a Canadian province when she is elected by the political caucus.

#WomenInHistory #CanadianHistory #History #OTD #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 1 April 1983, around 200 women dressed as teddy bears or Easter bunnies break into the Greenham Common airbase in the UK to stage a protest picnic against nuclear warfare. Greenham was due to house US nuclear missiles

A further 40,000 protestors, men and women, form a human chain linking #Greenham to #Aldermaston and Burghfield.

Women had established the peace camps at Greenham in 1981.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #PeaceProtests #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 29 Mar 1993, Catherine Callbeck is elected as the premier of Prince Edward Island, Canada, in the general election. She is the first woman to be elected by the public to a premiership in Canada.

Other women had previously held premierships through party leadership elections.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #CanadianHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 17 Mar 1964, Joan Merriam Smith set off from Oakland airport in California in an attempt to fly solo around the world. She followed Amelia Earhart’s easterly route from 1937 as far as New Guinea where Earhart had vanished.

Merriam Smith arrived back in Oakland on 12 May 1964, the first pilot to successfully make a solo circumnavigation by the equatorial route.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenPilots #AmericanHistory #WomensHistoryMonth

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