Today in 1972, 53 years ago: In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.
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Today in 1794, 231 years ago: The Slave Trade Act of 1794 bans the export of slaves from the United States, and prohibits American citizens from outfitting a ship for the purpose of importing slaves.
Today in 1900, 125 years ago: in the United States, a woman named Anne Rainsford French Bush is the first woman to drive a car.
Today in 1621, 404 years ago: The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, lead by governor John Carver, sign a peace treaty with Massasoit, sachem of the Wampanoags; Squanto serves as an interpreter between the two sides.
#OnThisDay (2012-03-22) Chad (^demon/
) made the first official commit to the #MediaWiki core in Git using @gerritreview and #Git-Review as part of the #SVN to #Git conversion project.
Which organisation was founded by Hassan al-Banna in Egypt on 22 March 1928? #quiz #onthisday
#OnThisDay, 22 March 1982, around 250 people blockade Greenham Common airbase in the UK. 34 are arrested. It was the first mass non-violent protest by the Greenham Common peace women.
Photo: Paula Allen.
Read more: https://carvehername.org.uk/greenham-women-22-march-1982/
Today in 1933, 92 years ago: German Chancellor Adolf Hitler inaugurates the first German Parliament of Nazi Germany.
Today in 1843, 182 years ago: in the United States the End of the World predicted by the millenarian William Miller according to his interpretation of the prophecies of Daniel should have begun. (See List of doomsday dates.)
#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", is arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem.
She is later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.
#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1944, Virginia Hall returns to Nazi-occupied France.
Previously with the British SOE, Hall returned with the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and trained 3 battalions of resistance fighters.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #WW2 #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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On this day in history. The Royal Research Ship Discovery was launched in Dundee 124 years ago today on 21 March 1901, before taking Robert Falcon Scott on his first Antarctic expedition in August that year. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dundee/discoverypoint/index.html
Tomás MacCurtain, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, was shot dead in front of his wife and son by a group of men with blackened faces on 20th March 1920. The murderers were subsequently found by the official inquest into the event to be members of the Royal Irish Constabulary. MacCurtain was also commandant of the Cork No. 1 Brigade of the IRA.
Today in 1974, 51 years ago: outside Buckingham Palace (in London), a certain Ian Ball tries unsuccessfully to kidnap Princess Anne and her husband, Captain Mark Phillips.
On this day in 1915, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the "original soul sister" and "Godmother of rock and roll" was born.
"Rock 'n' roll was bred between the church and the nightclubs in the soul of a queer black woman in the 1940s named Sister Rosetta Tharpe."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZE
Today in 1852, 173 years ago: in the USA, Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was a great support for the cause of black emancipation.
Paul Kossoff, who died at the age of 25 from a pulmonary embolism on a flight to New York City on 19 March 1976, was co-founder and guitarist of which rock band? #quiz #onthisday
#OnThisDay, 19 March 1944, Yvonne Baseden parachutes into Nazi-occupied France as a Special Operations Executive radio operator. The British SOE supported the French resistance. Radio operators ran the greatest risk of discovery as their position could be triangulated when they were transmitting.
Baseden was captured and sent to Ravensbrück.
She was the subject of the first regular UK edition of This Is Your Life in 1955.
Who sang along with James Corden in the car in a Comic Relief sketch on 18 March 2011, inspiring Carpool Karaoke according to Corden? #quiz #onthisday
“Once, with hand-grenades in my shopping bag, I travelled in a train so full that I had to stand against a German NCO.”
#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 1943, Francine Agazarian arrives in Nazi-occupied France to be a courier in the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French Resistance.
