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#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1944, Virginia Hall returns to Nazi-occupied France.
Having escaped over the Pyrenees mountains whilst with the British Special Operations Executive, she returns with the American Office of Strategic Services. She trains 3 battalions of resistance fighters.
#OnThisDay, 7 Feb 1971, women in Switzerland win the right to vote in federal elections after a national referendum.
Snail pic is from a suffrage protest in 1928.
#FlashbackFriday #FeministFriday #SisterSuffragette #VotesForWomen
#OnThisDAy, 13 Jan 1976, Sarah Caldwell takes up the baton the New York @MetOpera, becoming the first woman to conduct an opera there.
#OnThisDay, 23 Nov 1909, Clara Lemlich called a general strike by garment workers in New York, USA. Within 48 hours, around 20,000 mostly female workers walked out.
I/V with Clara:
https://t.co/5YWZmeV3p9