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#OnThisDay, 18 May 1991, cosmonaut Helen Sharman becomes the first British person in space.#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

@CarveHerName See also here:#remarkablewoman

@CarveHerName Eddy Izzard (pre-transition) used the same line regarding women's clothes.

#OnThisDay, 1974-04-08. Revision 0 of David Moon's Maclisp Reference Manual. The story goes, this came out of Moon's work to port Maclisp from ITS to Multics. Tell-tale use of XGP fonts.https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/MIT/Moon-MACLISP_Reference_Manual-Apr_08_1974.pdf

@publicdomainrev what happened to the “the”s in your toot?

#OnThisDay, 13 Mar 1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot became the provisional president of Haiti. She was the first woman to hold the role. She stabilised the country for long enough for it to hold a free and fair election.“I accepted the position in the name of Haitian women. I did it as a service to my country. I did it with love and determination.”#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #CaribbeanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 2006 and 11 Mar 2014, Michelle Bachelet was sworn in as President of Chile. She was the first woman to hold the role, and the first to be re-elected to it.She was subsequently the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights (2018-2022) where she was criticized for visiting China. She is in the running to be the next General Secretary of the UN: if selected she would be the first woman to hold the role.