On This Day Sheさんのイラストまとめ

#otd in 1966 Czech New Wave director Věra Chytilová's film Sedmikrásky (Daisies) was released. Banned by Czech authorities for "depicting the wanton", the film brought Chytilová international recognition. "I have no desire to cuddle my audience". https://t.co/AodZRKRayd

#OTD in 1949, Maria Tallchief, member of the Osage Nation, became America's first home-grown prima ballerina. She took the lead role in NYC Ballet's premiere of Firebird, directed by Balanchine. https://t.co/QpMOxgxxrE

Geronima Parasole was a woodblock cutter and engraver in early modern Rome. Her prints appeared in a 1592 study of coins by Antonio Agustin, probably the first printed book illustrated by a woman. She adapted some images, such as this by Antonio Tempesta https://t.co/tfp6xF34IY

#OTD in 2001 'Bandit Queen' and Indian MP Phoolan Devi was assassinated by rivals of her former gang. After 11 years in jail for crimes including murder, plunder, arson and kidnapping - and suffering crimes, including repeated gang rape - she became an MP.

#OTD in 1948 Argentine political leader & First Lady Eva Perón set up the María Eva Duarte de Perón Foundation, which aimed to build homes, schools, hospitals & orphanages in underprivileged areas. On 7 May 1952 she was named Spiritual Leader of the Nation https://t.co/4lRPG2IWda

In July 1939, American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon - who created the Harvard Classification Scheme, the first serious method for classifying stars, & classified 350,000 in her lifetime - discovered Harvard’s 10,000th variable star. https://t.co/XnHJPBbfi4 #WomenInSTEM

#otd in 1996, 37-year-old Irish journalist Veronica Guerin - known worldwide for her articles on criminal gangs and the drug trade - was murdered by drug lords. In 2000, she was named as one of the Int'l Press Institute's World Press Freedom Heroes. https://t.co/e6ECQI66vu

#OTD in 1931 haematologist Lucy Wills published her paper on pernicious anaemia in pregnant women in the British Medical Journal. She'd identified a B vitamin in Marmite (the "Wills Factor") that prevented and cured anaemia—later shown to be folic acid. https://t.co/jwwWBKlUbJ

After Agnes of Dunbar had defended Dunbar Castle in Scotland for 5 months against the English, on this day in 1338 the English lifted the siege. https://t.co/vXYmeyzmu0 (Ballad) #otd