#OnThisDay in 1917, #JoStafford, American pop singer (The Pied Pipers - "I'll Never Smile Again"; Tommy Dorsey - "Let's Just Pretend"; solo - "You Belong to Me"), born in Coalinga, California (d. 2008). 🪽🥀
#RIP

#OnThisDay, 12 Nov 1951, Celia Franca's National Ballet of Canada holds its first performance. Franca had gathered the company from across Canada in just 10 months. She goes on to co-found the National Ballet School.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CanadianHistory #BalletHistory

#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1865, Dr Mary Edwards Walker receives the Medal of Honor from US President Andrew Johnson for her services as a field surgeon in the American Civil War.

A lifelong "dress reformer", she wore trousers under short dresses and eventually switched to trousers and jackets. She was frequently arrested for her choice. "I don't wear men's clothes, I wear my own clothes."

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInWar #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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On 10 November 1879 Pádraig Pearse (Pádraig Anraí Mac Piarais), teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist, political activist, revolutionary and one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rebellion, was born in Dublin.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #PádraigPearse EasterRebellion #Dublin #OnThisDay

#OnThisDay in 2023, 57th Country Music Association Awards: Lainey Wilson, Luke Combs & #TracyChapman win.

#OnThisDay in 2003, #BobbyHatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers - "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"), died of acute cocaine toxicity at 63. 💐
#RIP

#OnThisDay, 4 Nov 2012, Fawzia Yusuf Adam became the first woman to be Foreign Affairs Minister for Somalia. She also became Deputy Prime Minister. She was in post until January 2014.

In 2022 Adam stood in the Somalian Presidential election. She was the only woman out of 36 candidates. She did not make it through the first round.

#OnThisDay #Balfour #Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in #Palestine (1917).

Birth Anniversary of George Boole (1815) - best known as the author of The Laws of Thought (1854) which contains #Boolean #Algebra.

Today is International Day to End Impunity for #CrimesAgainstJournalists.

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A prosperous banker, Charles Geach was said to have ‘the largest head in Birmingham’ and had to have his hats specially made. He was Liberal MP for Coventry from April 1851 until his death #OnThisDay 1854.

Countess Markievicz died on 15 July 1927 in Dublin. A founding member of Fianna Éireann, Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizen Army, she took part in the Easter Rising in 1916. She was sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment on the grounds of her sex. She was the first woman elected to the UK House of Commons. She was elected Minister for Labour in the First Dáil, becoming the first female cabinet minister in Europe. 1/2

#Ireland #IrishHistory #CountessMarkievicz #OnThisDay

Alan Turing died by suicide on 7th June 1954. Turing was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 and given a choice between imprisonment and probation. His probation was conditional on his agreement to undergo hormonal physical changes designed to reduce his libido. Turing's conviction led to the removal of his security clearance and barred him from continuing with his consultancy for GCHQ. He was denied entry into the United States after his conviction.

#AlanTuring #GayPersecution #OnThisDay

Born #OnThisDay 1819 Hon. Francis John Robert Villiers, Conservative MP for Rochester, 1852-6. He never spoke in the Commons, being fonder of horse-racing and left the country in 1855 having run up debts of £100,000. #19thcentury

Born #onthisday in 1868, the legendary Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Read about the remarkable photographs of his ill-fated final expedition and how this iconic visual record has helped to keep his legend alive: https://buff.ly/3vVrg6E
#otd #photography