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In 1660 the first female Desdemona (probably Ann Marshall) appeared at Thomas Killigrew's theatre in London. Like all other female roles, Desdemona was previously played by men. The post-Restoration theatre revival created new opportunities for women like Nell Gwynne.

In December 1902, after leading a strike of her fellow women glove makers at their Chicago factory, Agnes Nestor founded the International Glove Workers Union. She also lobbied for legislation on child labour, min wage, maternity health & women's suffrage. https://t.co/eqRtQODadx

#otd in 1976 Kitty O'Neil, deaf from age 5, became the fastest woman alive, driving a 3-wheeled rocket car at 512.710 mph, a record which still stands. Stuntwoman on the Wonder Woman TV show, she was the first female member of Hollywood's Stunts Unlimited. https://t.co/CvHESyPRAL

#otd in 1929 Constance Spry unveiled her first floral shop window display, shocking London by using hedgerow flowers. Considered a trailblazer, she set up her own Flower School and during WWII gave lectures encouraging people to grow their own food. https://t.co/2Pd41KvbmW

#OTD in 2010 the extraordinary Asma Jilani Jahangir, lawyer and activist, became the first woman president of Pakistan’s Supreme Court Bar Association. With her sister she set up the country's first free legal aid centre and its Human Rights Commission. https://t.co/xMp6QldCT5

In 1679 naturalist & illustrator Maria Merian published "The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars", the first work looking at animal-plant relationships, making her the first ecologist. She was also the first to record insect metamorphosis. #WomenInSTEM https://t.co/N1sbpNvPUU

#OTD in 1745, the first recorded women's cricket match took place—on Gosden Common, nr Guildford—“between eleven maids of Bramley and eleven maids of Hambledon, all dressed in white… The girls bowled, batted, ran and catched as well as most men could do.”
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In May 1945 Dorothy Hodgkin figured out the molecular structure of penicillin. In 1964 she won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work in X-ray crystallography. “I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.” She was also a socialist & activist. https://t.co/iELgCL30S4

On this day in 1943, German student Sophie Scholl, with her brother Hans, was executed by the Nazis for distributing anti-Nazi resistance leaflets. "...what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?” https://t.co/uRw6QZs2mo #otd