#OnThisDay, 17 Aug 2012, Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Yekaterina Samutsevich of Pussy Riot are sentenced to two years in a prison colony for an anti-Putin protest.

#OnThisDay, 13 Aug 2014, Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal for her work on complex geometry. She was the first woman to win it since it began in 1936.

She died in 2017, aged just 40. Multiple awards and initiatives are named after her.

#WomenInSTEM

#OnThisDay, 5 Aug 1888, Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim: the first journey of 100+km in a car by *anyone*.

She'd got tired of her husband tinkering with his prototype so took it on the road with her sons. And without him.

Along the way, she made running repairs to the engine and realised there would need to be refueling stations.

#WomenInSTEM #EuropeanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 7 Jun 1968, 187 women working at the Ford car factory in Dagenham, UK, go on strike demanding recognition as skilled workers.

They are led by Rosie Boland and Lil O'Callaghan. After three weeks they win concessions as production had to be shut down. The strike was one of the triggers for the Equal Pay Act 1970 that made it illegal to pay women and men differently if they are doing the same job.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #MadeInDagenham #Histodons

Reading day, and came across this quote in Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries by Kate Mosse.

#OnThisDay, 4 Oct 1936, women join the Battle of Cable Street, in London's East End, protesting against a fascist march through the area. Of the 79 people arrested, eight are women, including Blanche Edwards (pictured).

Hat tip to the East End Women's Museum for this one! https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/women-at-the-battle-of-cable-street

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #BritishHistory #AntiFascism