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In 1526 Parisian Yolande Bonhomme became the first woman to print an edition of the Bible. After her husband died, she had taken over his printing business, and built a highly successful career specialising in illustrated Books of Hours.
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On This Day She Sep 10
in 1999, 87-year-old Melita Norwood was exposed in The Times as a spy. She had been passing state secrets to the KGB for 40 years, including information that had enabled the first Soviet atomic bomb. The recent film "Red Joan" is based on her life.
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On This Day She Sep 9
In Sept 2015, the Black Mambas, a mostly female anti-poaching unit from South Africa, won the UN Champions of the Earth award. Leitah Mkhabela said: “When demand ends, the killing will end. Say yes to life. Say no to illegal rhino horn and elephant ivory.”
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On This Day She Sep 9
At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Aug-Sept 1960, Wilma Rudolph became the first American woman to win three gold medals at a single Olympiad. She had overcome childhood illness (incl polio) and disability to become a role model for black and female athletes.
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On This Day She Sep 8
in 1920 Lujza Blaha Square, Budapest was named for "the nation's nightingale". Blaha was a Hungarian actress and singer of the late C19. She played almost 200 parts, mostly Hungarian "folk plays", and popularised Hungarian gypsy songs.
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On This Day She Sep 7
Gertrude Bell was first a mountaineer who climbed in her bloomers - then an explorer and archaeologist, travelling and mapping much of the Middle East for the first time. A key advisor at the foundation of modern Iraq, she also founded its National Museum.
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On This Day She Sep 6
Dutch resistance fighter Freddie Oversteegen, born in 1925, joined the resistance at 14. With sister Truus and friend Hannie Schaft, she blew up bridges, got children out of concentration camps and shot Nazis with a gun hidden in her bicycle basket.
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On This Day She Sep 5
On September 5, 1859 Harriet Wilson published 'Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black' - the first black novelist published in America. Living and working in poverty, she wrote, lectured and gave 'trance readings' for the Spiritualist church.
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On This Day She Sep 4
in 1900, Jessie Tarbox Beals got her first credit for photographs published in the Windham County Reformer. America's first known woman photojournalist, she was a pioneer of social and art photography. [1st image via ]
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On This Day She Sep 3
in 2017, astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth -the world's oldest spacewoman at 57, and with ten space walks under her belt. No other American has spent longer off the planet, at 665 days.
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On This Day She Sep 2
St Hild (or Hilda) of Whitby established the monastery there in 657, and hosted the synod which established the date of Easter in Britain. Aristocrat, administrator and advisor to kings, Hild is a patron saint of learning and culture, including poetry.
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On This Day She Sep 1
in 1875, 14-year-old Agnes Beckwith made history, swimming 5 miles from London Bridge to Greenwich in 1 hr 7 mins. She made many record-breaking swims in the Thames and formed a touring troupe of 'talented lady swimmers', travelling around the world.
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On This Day She Aug 30
In Aug 1955, aged 20, Raven Wilkinson was the first African American woman contracted to dance full time with a major ballet company, NYC's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. While touring the segregated South, she was encouraged to wear pale makeup but refused.
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On This Day She Aug 30
In 1966 Spanish lexicographer María Moliner published her unique Diccionario de Uso del Español (Dictionary of Spanish Use), which groups words in families. “The Academy dictionary is the dictionary of authority. Mine has not much regard for authority.”
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On This Day She Aug 29
In Aug 1941 American spy Virginia Hall, who had a prosthetic leg named Cuthbert, entered France posing as a NY Post reporter & set up HECKLER, a spy network of French citizens. Called "most dangerous of all Allied spies" by the Nazis, she was never caught.
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On This Day She Aug 27
In Aug 1910 Scottish activist Mary Macarthur, founder of the Natl Federation of Women Workers & Natl Anti-Sweating League, led the women chain makers of Cradley Heath to victory in the fight for minimum wage & led a strike to make employers implement it.
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On This Day She Aug 27
in 1951 the first episode of The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong aired, the first US TV show with an Asian American lead: Chinese-American actor Anna May Wong - a star of silent films & early films with sound - playing a detective, a role written for her.
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On This Day She Aug 26
in 1600, notorious English pickpocket & fence Mary Frith - known as Moll Cutpurse or ‘roaring girl’ - was indicted in Middlesex for stealing 2s 11d. She smoked, wore men's clothes’, wrote an autobiography in 1662, and had two plays written about her.
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On This Day She Aug 25
in 1934 US columnist and radio broadcaster Dorothy Thompson became the first journalist expelled from Germany by the Nazis. In 1939 Time magazine declared her and Eleanor Roosevelt to be "undoubtedly the most influential women in the U.S." Read her:
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On This Day She Aug 24
In August 1976 Jayaben Desai led a strike of 100 mainly South Asian workers at Grunwick film processing plant. The 2-year action—for the right to a union—challenged the stereotype of subservient migrant women & inspired 1000s of workers to show solidarity.
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