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Woman of the Day suffragist, teacher, politician and writer Gina Krog born OTD 1847 in Norway, widely regarded as the unchallenged leader of the women’s movement in Norway from 1884 until her death in 1916, when she became the first woman in Norway to receive a state funeral.… pic.twitter.com/L6vaHcwQv7

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I can’t tell you when Woman of the Day Jane Corran – also known as Jenny Pipes – was born or indeed very much about her but in 1809, she became the last woman in England to be immersed in water in a ducking stool for the crime of being a “common scold”.

The term “ducking stool”… pic.twitter.com/QSgZhJrD4R

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I was horrified to discover when reading this that the ducking stool was not outlawed until 1967.

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Woman of the Day has to be suffragist Susan B. Anthony, born in 1820 in Massachusetts, who was fined $100 OTD in 1873 for voting illegally in Rochester in the Ulysses S. Grant/Horace Greeley presidential election. She had no expectations that her vote would stand. This was about… pic.twitter.com/nid7DGXWtM

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Woman of the Day Susan La Flesche Picotte, born OTD in 1865 on the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska, the first Native American woman to qualify as a doctor. By the time she died, she could suture wounds, deliver babies and treat TB, but as a woman, she couldn’t vote and as a Native… pic.twitter.com/V44lYXKnat

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Woman of the Day Margaret Bondfield died OTD in 1953 aged 80, the working class girl who overcame humble beginnings to become the first female Cabinet minister and Privy Counsellor. This is not about her political career. This is about her undercover role as Grace Dare, exposing… pic.twitter.com/ecOn8wpZ8j

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Woman of the Day golfer Margaret Abbott born OTD in 1878 in India of American parents, who won gold at the 1900 Paris Olympics making her the first American woman to do so. She didn’t realise. In fact, she never knew because the Games of the II Olympiad were a bit of a shambles.… pic.twitter.com/jZaYEaDnS4

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Women of the Day Corporal Lydia Alford, Leading Aircraftwoman Myra Roberts and LACW Edna Birkbeck of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force who landed in Normandy in June 1944, days after D-Day, the first British servicewomen ever authorised by this country to be sent into a combat war… pic.twitter.com/qnMdutmad2

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Woman of the Day philosopher Dorothea Erxleben died OTD in 1762, aged 46, the first woman awarded a medical doctorate in Germany – and until 1901, the only one.

Much the same happened in England. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson qualified in 1865. The Society of Apothecaries promptly… pic.twitter.com/wVZAEYw34s

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Woman of the Day retired nurse, cancer survivor and adventurer Barbara Hillary born OTD 1931 in New York City, trekked to the North Pole at the age of 75 and four years later reached the South Pole, making her the first African American woman on record to reach both poles.… pic.twitter.com/6xRdgqAYDW

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Spare a thought for Woman of the Day midwife Bridget Bishop, executed OTD in 1692 in Salem, aged 60, on trumped-up charges of being a witch. She was the first victim of the Salem witch trials, the most notorious case of mass hysteria in early America, but not the last. Twenty-two… pic.twitter.com/fosyojXFoM

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Woman of the Day Dorinda Neligan born OTD in 1833 in Cork, a volunteer nurse in wartime and a much respected headmistress who took to civil disobedience at the age of 76 in the cause of votes for women. Naturally, she did it in style. She managed to get arrested but was not… pic.twitter.com/zRZFS3jN7n

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The Woman of the Day is the woman who sold apples from a cart OTD in 1866 in Westminster Hall. I can’t tell you her name, despite a fruitless hour or two combing through the signatories to the famous 1866 petition, or indeed, anything about her but she rendered a great service to… pic.twitter.com/hQPiE3HSQ1

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Woman of the Day “champion female rower of the world” Ann Glanville of Saltash, Cornwall, died OTD 1880 at 84. She led her crew of female rowers to victory in local regattas, outclassing the men, and was said to have rowed across the Channel to Le Havre to beat the French in a… pic.twitter.com/lcI58AkveA

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Woman of the Day Trota of Salerno, a practical healer who lived in the early part of the 12th century and possibly the world’s first gynaecologist. She wrote at least one section and probably two of a comprehensive three-part treatise on women’s health that influenced male… pic.twitter.com/9djR8ETBqz

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Woman of the Day teacher and member of the Belgian Resistance Andrée Guelen died OTD in 2022, aged 100. She kept over 300 Jewish children out of the hands of the Nazis, hiding them in schools, convents, monasteries and farms and after the war, managed to reunite many with their… pic.twitter.com/dR6iHMNtGz

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Woman of the Day ophthalmologist and inventor Patricia Bath, co-founder of the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness and the first African American woman to receive a medical patent, died OTD in 2019 aged 76. You might not need her invention just yet but you’ll know… pic.twitter.com/MK5mo932bu

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Woman of the Day Dr Mona Chalmers Watson, born OTD in 1872 in India, the first woman to graduate from the University of Edinburgh with a medical degree – she delayed her wedding so she could sign the register with MD after her name – and Chief Controller of the Women’s Army… pic.twitter.com/M6nXR5cNHt

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Woman of the Day analytical chemist Diane Leather (1933-2018) of Staffordshire, then a chemistry student at the University of Birmingham, defied all medical experts and became the first woman to run a mile in under five minutes OTD in 1954. Her time was 4 min 59.6 seconds.

“Oh… pic.twitter.com/0KckDATwvf

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Woman of the Day poet and author Anne Brontë, the youngest of the Brontë sisters, died OTD in 1849 of pneumonia aged just 29. Her second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, had been published only the year before under the pseudonym Acton Bell.

It was probably the most shocking… pic.twitter.com/Gf9LRKDBSj

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The Habeas Corpus Act came into law OTD in 1679 making it unlawful to hold anyone in prison without a trial but who was the first woman to bring a successful writ of habeas corpus? Woman of the Day apprentice dressmaker Daisy Hopkins, born on 14 July 1874 in Cambridge.

On the… pic.twitter.com/yS8XQJULd1

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