On This Day In History
This day 154 years ago – 7 February 1868 – Aleen Cust was born in Co Tipperary.
She would go to became the first female veterinarian in either Ireland or Great Britain.
According to Cust, when asked what she wanted to be as a child, “a vet was my reply ever and always.” pic.twitter.com/JbisYKtIe9
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) February 7, 2022
In 1927 Clarice Cliff recruited hand paintresses to decorate unsaleable stock, calling the range ‘Bizarre’. A working-class woman who became the first female designer in the Potteries and then Art Director, Cliff's ArtDeco designs changed ceramic history. https://t.co/fGJX3XAH6o pic.twitter.com/8sx4jxLhfv
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) February 7, 2022
On this day in 1904, a white mob brutally lynched Luther Holbert and an unidentified Black woman before a crowd of picknicking spectators in Doddsville, Mississippi. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/XV5NYmbsHi
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) February 7, 2022
Today marks 4 years since we lost the incredible @GlasgaeLauraLee. Today we remember her bravery, her tenaciousness, her warmth and her care for her community. pic.twitter.com/KDdO2y9W0F
— Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) (@SWAIIreland) February 7, 2022
February 8th
1587 Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle aged 44 after being convicted of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I in the Babington Plot
1672 Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
1807 Battle of Eylau ends inconclusively between Napoleon's forces and Russian Empire - 1st battle Napoleon isn't victorious
1960 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
1971 Nasdaq Composite stock market index debuts with 50 companies and a starting value of 100
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Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio becomes Walt Disney Studios
Today in History in 1926
Would You Believe?
The Devil's Footprints, hoof-like marks mysteriously appear for over 60km after a snowfall in southern Devon, England
Today in History in 1855
This day 110 years ago – 8 February 1912 – Winston Churchill shared a platform with John Redmond at Celtic Park in Belfast, where he spoke in favour of Home Rule to 7,000 people.
Churchill intended to speak at Ulster Hall, but was prevented from doing so by unionist protestors. pic.twitter.com/fe00EvjMI5
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) February 8, 2022
In Feb 1987, activist Meena Keshwar Kamal was assassinated in Quetta, Pakistan. In 1977—as a student in Kabul—she had founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), to promote equality & education for women and secular democracy. https://t.co/wZVFwnmY0j pic.twitter.com/7MbqrzZ5XF
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) February 8, 2022
On this day in 1968, white state troopers fired into a mostly Black crowd on the campus of South Carolina State College, wounding 28 and killing 3 young Black men. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/XJIz7hdpfD
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) February 8, 2022
February 9th
1775 British Parliament declares Massachusetts colony in rebellion
1904 Japanese land troops at Chemulpo (Inchon), near Seoul, Korea; within the next three weeks they will have advanced to the Yalu River, the border of Manchuria
1943 Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, ending the epic World War II battle on the Solomon Islands in the Pacific
1972 British government declares state of emergency after month-long coal miners' strike
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William Morgan presents his new sport "Mintonette" to the world at Springfield College, Massachusetts, later renames it "Volleyball"
Today in History in 1895
Would You Believe?
Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 sec by Thomas School of Germany
Today in History in 1992
This day 176 years ago – 9 February 1846 – Irish geophysicist Robert Mallet presented his paper On the Dynamics of Earthquakes, “the first attempt to bring the phenomena of the earthquake within the range of exact science.”
Mallet coined the terms 'epicentre' and 'seismology.' pic.twitter.com/q8RlmNsb2k
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) February 9, 2022
#OTD in 1960 the first star in the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame was unveiled: 'Joanne Woodward'. An Academy Award & Golden Globe Award winner for The Three Faces of Eve (1957), Woodward's long and successful career involved many nuanced, complex roles.https://t.co/0jfnKxm1Qy pic.twitter.com/FisMkIl6bW
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) February 9, 2022
On this day in 1960, four weeks before her graduation, a bomb exploded at the home of Carlotta Walls, youngest of the "Little Rock Nine." To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/NDl5rEmzvK
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) February 9, 2022
Fyodor Dostoyevsky died #OnThisDay in 1881. "What I think is really interesting about Dostoevsky, and speaks to modern readers, is that he’s concerned not with the aristocracy but with the vulnerable people of society," @alex_christofi
https://t.co/5GP532x4UM— Five Books (@five_books) February 9, 2022
February 10th
60 St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
1720 Edmond Halley appointed as the second Astronomer Royal at the Greenwich Observatory
1763 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to Britain
1824 Simón Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Peru
1879 Henry Morton Stanley departs for the Congo
1906 British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design
1952 India holds its first general election: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru remains in power
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"Tom & Jerry" cartoon created by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera debut by MGM
Today in History in 1940
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IBM computer Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a game of chess against a reigning (human) chess champion, Gary Kasparov
Today in History in 1996
TODAY, a statue of Licoricia of Winchester is being unveiled. A wealthy and powerful medieval Jewish financier, Licoricia moved in court circles; her clients included Henry III. She was found murdered in her home in Spring 1277, apparently in a burglary. https://t.co/3mpJZqxCfz pic.twitter.com/wsl9Y3xO5e
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) February 10, 2022
On this day in 1908, a mob of over 2,000 white people lynched a Black man named Eli Pigot in Brookhaven, Mississippi. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/a1YMBL5lJ7
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) February 10, 2022
"I’m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession & a struggle to understand things about myself & this world in which I live."
Arthur Miller, who died #OTD 2005 #BookTwitter pic.twitter.com/Xh7Ya4nQpj
— Broadhursts Bookshop (@BroadhurstBooks) February 10, 2022