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Hah, alright. One more #OnThisDay #trivia.

#OTD in 1901, on her 63rd birthday, an American schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor became "the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel".

"Her motives were financial but she never made much money from her adventure. [...] Her manager, Frank M. Russell, ran away with her barrel [...]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Edson_Taylor

#history #WomensHistory #NiagaraFalls #BarrelRoll

Also #OTD, the first photo of Earth from space was taken in 1946 by a camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket.

"An observer in the rocket could have seen San Diego, Salt Lake City, Kansas City, and San Antonio"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=_dhGjgrGbcI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_No._13

#space #history #earth #photography

#OnThisDay in 1975, 90% of women in Iceland participated in the Women's Day Off strike to "demonstrate the indispensable work of women for Iceland's economy and society" and to "protest wage discrepancy and unfair employment practices".

A law guaranteeing equal rights was passed the following year, and the first democratically elected female president in Iceland and the world five years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Icelandic_women%27s_strike

#OTD #history #labor #WorkersRights #feminism #WomensRights #iceland

#TIL that #OnThisDay in 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre declined the Nobel Prize in Literature award.

"A writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution."

"He was the first Nobel laureate to voluntarily decline the prize, and remains one of only two laureates to do so."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre

#OTD #history #books #literature #bookstodon #NobelPrize

"Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel … it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags."

Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre was published #OnThisDay in 1847.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre

#JaneEyere #CharlotteBronte #feminism #books #bookstodon #literature #history #OTD

"Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel … it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags."

Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre was published #OnThisDay in 1847.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre

#JaneEyere #CharlotteBronte #feminism #books #bookstodon #literature #history #OTD

Also #OnThisDay, but in October 1940, Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator debuted in New York.

"We all want to help one another; human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there's room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY1Xg6X20

https://libcom.org/library/great-dictator-speech-charlie-chaplin

via https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/113311136536087621

#history #film #antifa #antifascism #otd

The Black Panther Party was founded #OnThisDay in 1966.

From a 2016 article commemorating its 50th anniversary:

"The work of the Black Panthers remains important for several reasons. First, they remind us that the problem of police brutality has long been with us [...]

Second, the BPP offers a good model of grassroots activism and ideology in practice."

https://jacobin.com/2016/10/black-panther-party-fifty-year-anniversary-founding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party

#history #BlackHistory #BlackPanther #BlackPantherParty

The first live TV broadcast from an American spacecraft was performed by the Apollo 7 crew #OnThisDay in 1968.

"It began with a view of a card reading "From the Lovely Apollo Room high atop everything", [a reference to 1930s radio broadcasts] [...]

During the seven-minute broadcast, the crew showed off the spacecraft and gave the audience views of the southern United States."

https://youtube.com/watch?v=z8-M5Z-Ipro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7

#OTD #space #history #nasa #LiveTV

#TIL about the British suffragette Margaret Travers Symons who, #OnThisDay in 1908 became the first woman to speak at the UK parliament.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Travers_Symons

#OTD #history #women #WomensHistory #WomensRights #suffragette #feminism

"The first American alarm clock was created in 1787 by Levi Hutchins [...]. This device he made only for himself, however, and it only rang at 4 am, in order to wake him for his job. The French inventor Antoine Redier was the first to patent an adjustable mechanical alarm clock, in 1847."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_clock

via https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/g38300892/who-invented-these-everyday-items/?slide=2

#TIL #technology #inventions #history #AlarmClock

"On October 12, 1964, [engineer and electronic music pioneer] Bob Moog unveiled the first modular voltage-controlled synthesizer [...]

What Bob designed was not wholly new, it sprung from a powerful new combination of existing ideas. The concepts, when combined with some elegant design choices, made a very powerful and revolutionary new system."

https://www.moogmusic.com/news/early-years-moog-synthesizer

#OnThisDay #OTD #music #history #MusicHistory #moog #BobMoog #synth