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31st July 1923 - Stephanie Louise Kwolek, inventor of KEVLAR is born. Working at the DuPont company for more than 40 years, she was awarded the company's Lavoisier Medal. See uses below.
@SpectrumDrama1 @OnThisDayShe @RoySocChem @STEMWomen @green4girls #homeschooling #OnThisDay
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#OnThisDay, 7 July 1948, the first six women are sworn into the regular US Navy. One, Edna Young, goes on to be the first Black female officer.
L-R front row: Wilma Marchal, Edna Young, Ruth Flora,
L-R back row: Kay Langen, Frances Devaney, Doris Robertson.
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#OnThisDay, 8 July 1948, Esther Blake becomes the first woman to enlist in the regular US Air Force.
#WaybackWednesday
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#OnThisDay, 7 July 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman to be nominated to sit on the US Supreme Court.
#JusticeIsAWoman #WomenInLaw
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#OnThisDay, 5 July 1957, American Althea Gibson becomes the first Black person to win a Wimbledon Singles tennis trophy.
Watch footage here: youtu.be/2EJCqBsh2Dk?t=1m15s
#Wimbledon #Tennis
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#OnThisDay, 30 June 1966, Pauli Murray, Betty Friedan and 26 other women founded the National Organisation for Women (@NationalNOW ) in the US.
#TimeTravelTuesday
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#OnThisDay, 24 June 1916, Mary Pickford becomes the first Hollywood star to sign a $1m contract.
#WaybackWednesday
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#OnThisDay, 23 June 1972, US President Nixon signs into law Title IX, prohibiting sexual discrimination in federally funded education programs/activities. [image is from 1979]
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#OnThisDay, 23 June 2016, Virginia Raggi takes up office as the first female Mayor of Rome, Italy.
#WomenInPolitics #WomanInPower
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#OnThisDay, 15 Jun 1921, Bessie Coleman gains her pilot's license, becoming the first civilian licensed African-American pilot in the world (Black military pilots already existed).
#HigherFurtherFaster #FemalePilots #MondayMotivation
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#OnThisDay, 16 June 1963, Russian Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space, orbiting Earth 48 times in Vostok 6.
She has said she is still willing to go on a one-way mission to Mars.
#TimeTravelTuesday #WomenInSpace #HigherFurtherFaster
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#OnThisDay, 8 Jun 1953, Mary Terrell wins her Supreme Court case to desegregate Washington DC's restaurants. She's 93, and celebrates with lunch in the restaurant that she'd taken to court.
(see ow.ly/R5YQ50A11Oa)
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#OnThisDay, 5 Jun 1833, Ada Lovelace meets Charles Babbage, triggering their collaboration on the Analytical Engine.
Image by @sydneypadua
#WomenInSTEM #FlashbackFriday
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There is no room for racism in feminism.
Standing up for women's rights means standing up against all forms of inequality, including discrimination based on gender, race, class, age, disability, sexuality or immigrant status.
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#OnThisDay, 2 Jun 1863, Harriet Tubman leads Unionist troops in the Combahee River raid in South Carolina, freeing over 700 enslaved people.
#BlackLivesMatter
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#OnThisDay, 3 Jun 1949, Georgia Neese Clark Gray becomes the first female Treasurer of the USA.
#WaybackWednesday
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Diverse sexual orientations and gender identities have always existed. Respect & protections for the #LGBTIQ community have a shorter history.
This #Pride, say:
❌No to violence.
❌No to discrimination.
❌No to injustice.
#PrideMonth
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#OnThisDay, 2 Jun 1953, Queen Elizabeth II is crowned, a year after ascending the throne of Britain and the Commonwealth.
#RegnantWomen
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#OnThisDay, 2 Jun 1863, Harriet Tubman leads Unionist troops in the Combahee River raid in South Carolina, freeing over 700 enslaved people.
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