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#OnThisDay, 14 Dec 1985, Wilma Mankiller was sworn in as Chief of the Cherokee Nation. She went to serve two more terms as Chief.#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 4 Dec 1978, Dianne Feinstein was formally sworn in as Mayor of San Francisco. She had been the acting Mayor after the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk the week before. She goes on to win two more terms, and to be elected to the US Senate where she served until her death in 2023.#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons1/2

#OnThisDay, 14 Nov 1960, Ruby Bridges goes to school. She is the first African-American child to attend the all-white William Frantz school in Louisiana, USA. It is a symbolic act, breaking the segregation of education in the state.#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 13 Nov 1931, Democrat Hattie Wyatt Caraway is appointed as a US Senator for Arkansas.The first woman to sit in the Senate for more than a day, she'd been selected by the party on the understanding that she would serve out her late husband's term and not stand for re-election in 1932.Instead she stood again, and remained a Senator until 1945.#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons1/2

“I may be the first woman member of Congress but I won’t be the last.”#OnThisDay, 7 Nov 1916, Jeanette Rankin is elected to the US House of Representatives. She was the first woman elected to the House.#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 3 Nov 1914, American Mary Phelps Jacob is granted a US patent for the brassiere. Here's a brief thread on her life. 👇Born to descendants of founding families, Jacob had a gilded life until WW1. To manage his PTSD, her first husband turned to alcohol, gambling and following fire engines so he could watch buildings burn. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #FashionHistory #Histodons1/3