#OnThisDay, 31 Jan 2013, women in Paris are officially allowed to wear trousers.

The 1799 law required women to ask police for permission to "dress as men", or risk being taken into custody. Amendments in 1892 and 1909 were made to allow women to wear trousers if they were holding horse reins or a bicycle handle.

The law was widely ignored.

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, France's minister of women's rights, lifted the ban as “incompatible with the principles of equality between women and men”.
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#OnThisDay, 31 Jan 2013, women in Paris are officially allowed to wear trousers.

The 1799 law required women to ask police for permission to "dress as men", or risk being taken into custody. Amendments in 1892 and 1909 were made to allow women to wear trousers if they were holding horse reins or a bicycle handle.

The law was widely ignored.

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, France's minister of women's rights, lifted the ban as “incompatible with the principles of equality between women and men”.
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#OnThisDay, 30 Jan 1913, Ida B Wells forms the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, Illinois, to give a voice to Black women who had been excluded by national suffrage organisations because of their race.

In March 1913, the club headed to Washington DC to take part in the national Women’s Suffrage Procession. They were told to march at the back, in a segregated section, so as not to upset white southern women.

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

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#OnThisDay, 29 Jan 1891, Liliʻuokalani is sworn in as Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

She is the first, and only, regnant queen of the country and is deposed in a coup in 1893 that was supported by the US marines.

#RegnantWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

"We aren't super heroes. We are four ordinary women.”

#OnThisDay, 29 Jan 1996, Andrea Needham, Joanna Wilson, and Lotta Kronlid break into a BAE aerodrome and damage the electronics of a Hawk warplane destined to be used by Indonesia’s regime in East Timor.

#BritishHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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"We aren't super heroes. We are four ordinary women.”

#OnThisDay, 29 Jan 1996, Andrea Needham, Joanna Wilson, and Lotta Kronlid break into a BAE aerodrome and damage the electronics of a Hawk warplane destined to be used by Indonesia’s regime in East Timor.

#BritishHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 29 Jan 1891, Liliʻuokalani is sworn in as Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

She is the first, and only, regnant queen of the country and is deposed in a coup in 1893 that was supported by the US marines.

#RegnantWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (*27th January 1756 #Salzburg - †5th December 1791 #Vienna 🇦🇹) was born 270 years ago

#HappyBirthday #ClassicalBuzz #FF #FestivalBrikcius #MusicHistory #ClassicalMusic #OnThisDay

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (*27th January 1756 #Salzburg - †5th December 1791 #Vienna 🇦🇹) was born 270 years ago

#HappyBirthday #ClassicalBuzz #FF #FestivalBrikcius #MusicHistory #ClassicalMusic #OnThisDay

#OnThisDay, 27 Jan 1920, Mary Selina Share Jones becomes the first woman to join Gray's Inn in London as a student. No photo of her is online.

Membership of an Inn is a requirement for barristers in England and Wales. Until Dec 1919, women were barred from joining.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 27 Jan 1920, Mary Selina Share Jones becomes the first woman to join Gray's Inn in London as a student. No photo of her is online.

Membership of an Inn is a requirement for barristers in England and Wales. Until Dec 1919, women were barred from joining.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

Today in 1926, 100 years ago: The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.

#OnThisDay

Today in 1926, 100 years ago: The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.

#OnThisDay