Happy birthday to civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who was born on this day in 1913 ✊

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Par…

#RosaParks #CivilRights #OTD #OnThisDay #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

#otd

175 years ago Lina Hähnle, pioneer in bird conservation, was born in Sulz am Neckar, Germany. She would lead the NGO later known as @NABU for almost 40 years

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_H%C…

#birds #conservation

#OnThisDay, 2 Feb 1953, Dr Anna de Waal becomes State Secretary for Education, Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands. She is the first woman to hold a ministerial cabinet post in the country.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #DutchHistory #Histodons

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2. Februar, Mariä Reinigung, Lichtmess

Eine der von Johann Sebastian Bach für diesen Anlass komponierten geistlichen Kantaten ist "Ich habe genug", BWV 82, aus dem Jahr 1727 in Leipzig.
Es handelt sich um eine Solo-Kantate für Bass. Häufig wird die Version für Sopran aufgeführt.

"Ich freue mich auf meinen Tod"
Hans Hotter, Bassbariton

#bach #Lichtmess #otd #baroquemusic #Kantate #classicalmusic ##greatvoicesofthepast #bwv82 #leipzig

#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

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Female flicker turning its back on us

flickr.com/photos/armadillosof…

#OTD 1/31/22 #birds #birding #birdsOfMastodon #aBirdAday (or more)

#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.

#RegnantWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Hermit thrush
flickr.com/photos/armadillosof…

#OTD 1/27/25 #aBirdAday #birdsOfMastodon #birds #birding

song.link/d/3416826671

Heute vor 40 Jahren starb Lilli Palmer (geb. 1914) in Los Angeles.
Sie gehörte zu denen, die ihre Heimat Deutschland 1933 verlassen haben, um zu überleben. Lilli Palmer war Jüdin.

1956 kam sie nach Deutschland zurück, drehte Kinofilme und auch für das Fernsehen. Sie schrieb mehrere Bestseller; war auch als Malerin erfolgreich.

#otd #film #hollywood #actress #femaleheritage #herstory #emigration

#OnThisDay, 26 Jan 1961, Dr Janet Travell is appointed as the Physician to the President of the USA. The role includes being the director of the White House Medical Unit. Travell was the first woman to hold the post.

She specialised in the treatment of skeletal muscle pain, and developed the ice spray still in use in sports medicine today.

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

song.link/d/2782695462

Vor 175 Jahren
Gaspare SPONTINI
14.11.1774 - 24.01.1851

Der Komponist war von 1820 bis zu seinem Tod Generalmusikdirektor des Königlichen Opernhauses in Berlin.

Er komponierte "Borussia, Tempo di marcia trionfale" als preußische Nationalhymne.

Der nächste ital. Dirigent, der viele Jahre eine Berliner Musikinstitution leitete, war Claudio Abbado als Chefdirigent des BPO (1989-2002)

#otd #Preußen #komponist #nationalhymne #Oper #classicalmusic

Black oystercatcher at Mavericks
flickr.com/photos/armadillosof…

#OTD 1/23/16 #aBirdAday #birdsOfMastodon #birds #birding

ActivityPub, the protocol that powers much of the fediverse and allows the various fediverse platforms and servers to talk to each other, has become an official W3C standard 8 years ago!

w3.org/news/2018/activitypub-i…

#fediverse #activitypub #standards #OpenWeb #W3C #anniversary #OTD #OnThisDay

#OnThisDay, 23 Jan 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell graduates with a medical degree. She is the first woman to receive one in the USA. She was also the first woman on the UK medical register.

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

#OnThisDay, 23 Jan 1977, Patricia R Harris takes up duty as Housing and Urban Development secretary in the US cabinet. She is the first African-American woman to hold a US cabinet post.

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

song.link/d/32128731

Vor 175 Jahren

Albert LORTZING
23.10.1801 - 21.01.1851
Komponist, Librettist, Sänger etc.

"Die Opernprobe" war seine letzte Oper. Die Uraufführung, an der er nicht mehr teilnehmen konnte, fand am 20.01.1851 statt.

#otd #classicalmusic #oper #Komponist

song.link/d/2248699547

Claudio ABBADO
Dirigent, Musikdirektor, Orchestergründer
26.06.1933 - 20.01.2014

Mailänder Scala
Wiener Staatsoper
Berliner/Wiener Philharmoniker
London Symphony Orchestra
European Community Youth Orchestra
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
...

#dirigent #otd #classicalmusic

song.link/d/523340392

Hans SACHS,
Meistersinger, Schuhmacher
5.11.1494 - 19.01.1476
450 Jahre

Richard Wagner
"Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"
Hans HOTTER,
Bassbariton
19.01.1909 - 06.12.2003

#otd #meistersinger #nurnberg #sachs #musik #classicalmusic #greatvoicesofthepast #oper

song.link/d/2953931011

"Ich weiß nicht zu wem ich gehöre"

Das Lied komponierte Friedrich HOLLÄNDER, 18.10.1896 - 18.01.1976

Der Text ist von Robert Liebmann.

Es singt Marlene Dietrich.

Friedrich Holländer und Marlene Dietrich gingen ins Exil. Robert Liebmann wurde 1942 von den Nationalsozialisten in Auschwitz ermordet.

#otd #film #emigration #exil #musik #forbiddenbutnotforgotten

Male Anna's hummingbird in flight.

flickr.com/photos/armadillosof…

#OTD 1/17/25 #birds #birding #birdsOfMastodon #aBirdAday (or more)

song.link/d/67481327

Barthold Heinrich BROCKES
22.09.1680 - 16.01.1747
Schriftsteller

"Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und Sterbende Jesus"

Sein Text wurde als "BROCKES-PASSION" unter anderem von Georg Friedrich Händel und Georg Philipp Telemann vertont.

#otd #baroquemusic #schriftsteller #passion

song.link/d/2805575932

Carl Andreas Göpfert
Komponist, Musiker, Hofkapellmeister
16.01.1768 - 11.04.1818

Er war Mitglied der Hofkapelle Meiningen der Herzöge von Sachsen-Meiningen und wirkte in der Residenz und in Bad Liebenstein.

Sein vielseitiges kompositorisches Werk trug ihm die Bezeichnung "Meininger Mozart" ein.

#classicalmusic #unknowncomposers #forgottencomposers #meiningen #otd

#OnThisDay, 15 Jan 1559, Elizabeth Tudor is crowned as Queen Elizabeth of England. She reigned alone until her death in 1603.

Her foreign policy included privateering, colonising Virginia and approving the start of the East India Company.

#RegnantWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EnglishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 14 Jan 1972, Margrethe II becomes queen of Denmark, ruling in her own right until she announced her abdication (also on this day) in 2024.

She was the first regnant queen of Denmark since Margrethe 1 in 1375–1412.

youtube.com/watch?v=Ny5TCQgTwX…

#RegnantQueens #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

🐭🖌️ On this day in 1930, the Mickey Mouse comic strip made its debut! See the very first strip below—and binge the entire year of Mickey comics in our archive.

👀 Start reading now 👉 archive.org/details/%40iasocia…

#mickeymouse #comics #OTD

#OnThisDay, 13 Jan 1976, Sarah Caldwell takes up the baton at the New York Met Opera, becoming the first woman to conduct an opera there.

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

#OnThisDay, 13 Jan 1972, Bernice Gera wins her discrimination case against the National Association of Baseball Leagues for refusing her contract on the ground women could not be baseball umpires.

She resigns after her first game as an umpire, citing the level of harassment she received on and off the field.

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

Today, on January 11th, we have to remember who died #OTD in 2013: Aaron Swartz

You may know him from his contribution to or creation of:

• Markdown
• The Creative Commons License
• RSS
• Reddit

We must never forget him and his contributions to our world forever - especially due to circumstances of injustice and the cause he became a martyr for.

song.link/d/2534977561

Theo MACKEBEN
05.01.1897 - 10.01.1953
Komponist, Dirigent

Er dirigierte 1928 im Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin die Uraufführung von "Die Dreigroschenoper" (Brecht/Weill)

#otd #film #operette #music #Komponist #dirigent

#OnThisDay, 10 Jan 1917, the silent sentinels start their picketing of the US White House, demanding votes for women.

They protested six days a week until 1919, when the nineteenth amendment of the US constitution gave women the right to vote.

In practice, state restrictions on voters continued to limit some people’s right to vote.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #VotesForWomen

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#OTD January 8, 1454

The papal bull Romanus Pontifex grants Portugal sweeping rights to colonize and trade across Africa. One signature turning exploitation into “permission.”

Photo credit: public domain
#january8th #colonialism #africa #portugal #history #empire

#OnThisDay, 6 Jan 1907, Maria Montessori opens her first Casa Dei Bambini in Rome. Her aim was to improve the lives of the 50 working class children in her care.

Hundreds of schools worldwide now follow elements of the educational theory she developed through working with them.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

song.link/d/2799478912

Giacomo Meyerbeer vertonte ein Libretto von Johann Gottfried Wohlbrück (1770-1822).

Am 06.01.1813 hatte eine der ersten Opern Meyerbeers mit dem Titel "Wirth und Gast" ihre Uraufführung in Stuttgart.

Beim Librettisten handelt es sich um den Begründer einer Schauspielerfamilie, deren Mitglieder bis ins 20. Jahrhundert aktiv waren, zuletzt Adolf Wohlbrück (1896-1967).

#otd #uraufführung #stuttgart #meyerbeer #oper #classicalmusic

#OnThisDay, 5 Jan 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as Wyoming's governor. She is the first woman in the USA to govern a State. She went on to be the first woman to run the US Mint.

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

#OnThisDay, 4 Jan 1972, Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman judge to preside at the Old Bailey (the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales). It had taken 53 years after women were able to be lawyers in the UK.

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

Happy Tolkien's birthday to all who celebrate!

#JRRTolkien #Birthday #books #livres #bookstodon #author #auteur #anniversaire #Hobbit #LordOfTheRings #OTD

#OnThisDay, 3 Jan 1985, Leontyne Price gives her final operatic stage performance, as Aida at the New York Met.

Price was the first African American to be given a leading role at La Scala, and has 19 Grammy awards.

Read more about famous opera singers like Price: carvehername.org.uk/eight-famo…

Watch a song from her farewell performance: youtube.com/watch?v=74HvM1lDUd…

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

101 years ago, #OTD in 1925, Edwin Hubble announced that Andromeda and other spiral nebulae were definitely separate galaxies outside the Milky Way, in a paper read to an AAS meeting by H.N. Russell.

There was no doubt that the Universe was more than just our little island of stars.

#OnThisDay, 2 Jan 1969, Lorraine Hansberry's posthumous autobiographical play 'To Be Young, Gifted and Black' opens off-Broadway in New York City.

Its run inspires her friend Nina Simone to write the song of the same name.

Listen to Simone: youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBT…

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

#OnThisDay, 2 Jan 1980, Sherry Lansing is appointed as president of production at 20th Century Fox: she is the first woman to lead a Hollywood studio.

Mary Pickford had co-owned United Artists, but not run it.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory
#HollywoodHistory #Histodons

song.link/d/2772553571

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_vo…

Noch einer von den weitgehend Unbekannten ist
IGNAZ VON BEECKE, 28.10.1733 - 02.01.1803.

#otd #unknowncomposers #classicalmusic

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Gol…

song.link/d/2790103702

Einer von den vielen Komponisten, die kaum noch einer kennt:

KARL GOLDMARK
18.05.1830 - 02.01.1915

EIN WINTERMÄRCHEN
Oper
Uraufführung: 02.01.1908, Hofoper Wien

#otd #unknowncomposers #forgottencomposers #classicalmusic #oper

#OnThisDay, 29 Dec 1975, the Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay Acts came into effect in the UK. These made it unlawful to discriminate based on sex or marital status, and made it a requirement to pay men and women equally for equal work.

The laws were passed in 1970 but did not come into effect until 1975, giving employers time to prepare. One of the triggers for the laws had been the 1968 Ford machinists strike.

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

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Remembering Ian Fraser 'Lemmy' Kilmister 🖤

December 24, 1945 - December 28, 2015

Ramones and Lemmy - R.A.M.O.N.E.S- Live

#punk #punks #punkrock #lemmy #lemmykilmister #ramones #history #punkrockhistory #otd