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#OnThisDay, 26 July 1913, around 50,000 people - mostly women - rally in Hyde Park, London as part of campaigning for votes for women in Britain. Some of the marchers had set out from Cornwall or Scotland six weeks earlier. Many of them had faced abuse and assault along the way. blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/the-1913-suffrage-... ... show more#WomenInHistory
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#OnThisDay, 3 July 1918, Suze Groeneweg becomes the first woman elected to the Dutch Parliament. A social democrat, she supported people's education as well as equal rights for women. She served for 17 years. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
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"You have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored." #OnThisDay, 17 Jun 1873, Susan B Anthony is tried for illegally voting in the 1872 US Presidential election. #WomenInHistory ... show more#OTD
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#OnThisDay, 4 Jun 1919, the US Senate approved the 19th amendment, in theory granting all women the right to vote. It was ratified in August 1920. But it took until 1965 to lift state level laws that denied many women their rights. More here: www.neh.gov/article/winning-vote-divided-moveme... #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen ... show more#AmericanHistory
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#OnThisDay, 4 Jun 1913, British suffragette Emily Davison steps in front of the King's horse at the Epson Derby: she dies four days later. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 23 May 1907, 19 women take their seats in the Finnish Parliament. They are the first women Parliamentarians in the world. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #EuropeanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 21 Apr 1944, the provisional government of France signs into law universal suffrage, granting women the vote. #WomenInHistory #VotesForWomen
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#OnThisDay, 10 Mar 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson attacks, with a meat cleaver, Velázquez's painting of Venus in the National Gallery in London in protest at the treatment of Emmeline Pankhurst. Suffragette attacks on art were common enough for Punch to do a cartoon of it. #VotesForWomen ... show more#WomenInHistory
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#OnThisDay, 9 Mar 1906, British suffragettes Flora Drummond and Annie Kenney repeatedly knock on the door of Number 10 Downing Street during a protest. They were basically playing 'knock down ginger' on the Prime Minister. And were arrested for it. #WomenInHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #WomensHistoryMonth ... show more#Histodons