Le Pouls Du Monde

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 9 Apr 1944, Lise de Baissac returns to France to resume work as a Special Operations Executive courier. The British SOE supported the French resistance.She gathered and passed on information, and took part in armed attacks. At one point she rented a room in a house occupied by the local commander of the German Forces.Muriel Byck also arrives to be a SOE wireless operator. She dies of meningitis whilst still in France.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WorldWar2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorldWar2</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EuropeanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanHistory</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 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: <a href="https://carvehername.org.uk/marian-anderson-sings/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://carvehername.org.uk/marian-anderson-sings/</a>Newsreel of the time: <a href="https://youtu.be/XF9Quk0QhSE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/XF9Quk0QhSE</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 8 Apr 1968, Barbara Jane Harrison dies trying to rescue trapped passengers in an airplane fire at Heathrow. She was later awarded the George Cross for bravery: she remains the only individual woman to receive the GC in peacetime.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AviationHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AviationHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>1/9

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 8 Apr 1959, Mary K Hawes initiates a project to create the first universal programming language for computers used by businesses and government. Grace Hopper led the team that then created COBOL. Some mainframes are still using it.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 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.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EnglishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnglishHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AnarchyInTheUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AnarchyInTheUK</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

CarveHerNameWhy is a bridge in Sarajevo named after two women? <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 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.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EuropeanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnthisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnthisDay</a>, 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.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenExplorers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenExplorers</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NorthPole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NorthPole</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 3 Apr 1979, Jane Byrne wins the Chicago mayoral election. She is the first woman to be mayor of the city and is sworn in on 16 April. She hires the first black woman to be a school superintendent in the city, and stops the police raiding gay bars.Lori Lightfoot was the second woman to hold the post, from 2019 to 2023. She’s the first black woman and the first LGBT+ mayor since the post was created in 1837.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 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 missilesA further 40,000 protestors, men and women, form a human chain linking <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Greenham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Greenham</a> to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Aldermaston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Aldermaston</a> and Burghfield.Women had established the peace camps at Greenham in 1981.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BritishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BritishHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PeaceProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PeaceProtests</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 1 Apr 1792, former spy Etta Palm-Aelders speaks to the revolutionary French parliament. Her demands?The right for women to be admitted to civilian and military positions.The education of girls to be based on the same principles as those of boys.That women could become adults at the age of 21, and could get divorced. Her demands were refused.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FrenchHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FrenchHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Libert%C3%A9%C3%89galit%C3%A9Fraternit%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LibertéÉgalitéFraternité</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

CarveHerName“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 31 Mar 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was drafting the Declaration of Independence. He declined her suggestions.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 30 Mar 1982, Bertha Wilson was sworn in to the Canadian Supreme Court. She is the first woman appointed to sit on it.When she had started at law school in 1955, she was reportedly advised to 'take up crocheting' instead.Her 1988 ruling decriminalised abortion in Canada.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CanadianHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CanadianHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

MJ MuseOn This Day, 28 Mar 1900, Queen Yaa Asantewa leads an army of 5,000 to fight colonial Britain's attempts to rule the Asante region. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 28 Mar 1900, Queen Yaa Asantewa leads an army of 5,000 to fight colonial Britain's attempts to rule the Asante region.Read more: <a href="https://carvehername.org.uk/yaa-asantewaa/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://carvehername.org.uk/yaa-asantewaa/</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AfricanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AfricanHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 26 Mar 1974, Gaura Devi and 27 village women prevent the logging of trees in the village of Rini in the Himalayas. They confront armed men from the lumber company and hug the trees to stop them being felled.<a href="https://carvehername.org.uk/women-fighting-deforestation-gaura-devi/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://carvehername.org.uk/women-fighting-deforestation-gaura-devi/</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a>#Histodons

Agas Ramirez 🎙️someone uploaded a bunch of old cookbooks and I am living for this!!! there's a lot of <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/womeninhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#womeninhistory</a> here. among the photos here is pura villanueva kalaw's coconut cookbook, which i imagine she wrote in between fighting for women's suffrage. <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/herstoryseapod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#herstoryseapod</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 25 Mar 1941, the first WRNS arrive at Bletchley Park in the UK. They operate the Bombe machines used for decoding German Enigma machine messages. Their work helps shorten World War 2.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WorldWar2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorldWar2</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BletchleyPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BletchleyPark</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 24 Mar 1944, Éliane Plewman is arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied France after six months operating as a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance. A courier carried messages and equipment around their network.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WorldWar2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorldWar2</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EuropeanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SOE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SOE</a>1/2

CarveHerNameA German guard once asked Maureen O'Sullivan what was in her suitcase. She laughed. “A wireless, of course!”.Very early <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 23 Mar 1944 , Maureen 'Paddy' O'Sullivan parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.The SOE supported the French Resistance. Radio operators were at the greatest risk of capture as their position could be triangulated. O’Sullivan was never captured.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WW2</a>

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