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#OTD in 1793, Charlotte Corday assassinated French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat, because she believed he was too radical. She was executed by guillotine four days later. At her trial she apparently said: “I have killed one man to save 100,000.” https://t.co/nIcErFXrjz

#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

#otd in 1913 English suffragette Emily Wilding Davison stepped out in front of the King's horse at the Derby horse race to draw attention to the Votes for Women cause. She died 4 days later of her injuries; 50,000 people lined her funeral route. https://t.co/CrIfyQpfRB

Properzia de Rossi (c. 1490-1530)—a sculptor in Bologna—was the only woman given her own chapter in the first edition of Giorgio Vasari's Lives (1550). The cherry stone on which she carved sixty saints' heads is displayed in the Uffizi gallery, Florence. https://t.co/xPlMv4IqyC

On Georgian Independence Day we celebrate Barbare Jorjadze, princess, chef, author, playwright & women's rights advocate. In 1874 she published "Georgian Cuisine and Tried Housekeeping Notes" which has recently sparked a renaissance in Georgian cuisine. https://t.co/rUO9f9R7FQ

In May 1895 Juliana Emma Linter was elected to the Malacological Society of London for the study of molluscs. Her collection of 15,000 shells—now at @RAMMuseum—is invaluable to taxonomic research & to wider biodiversity studies esp concerning conservation. https://t.co/2vM9Jk1qD0