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#OnThisDay, 19 Feb 1951, Egyptian activist Doria Shafik leads a crowd of 1,500 women onto the floor of the Egyptian parliament demanding equal rights for women.
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#OnThisDay, 18 Feb 1944, Special Operations Executive courier Mary Herbert was arrested by the Gestapo in Poitiers.
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She stuck to her cover story and was released a few months after her arrest. She then successfully convinced the orphanage to return her baby to her, and went into hiding until liberation.She was awarded the Croix de Guerre by France. 2/2
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#OnThisDay, 13 Feb 1907, around 15 suffragettes rush into the lobby of the House of Commons in London: around 60 more are arrested outside.
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@CarveHerName Release, after being brutalized?
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#OnThisDay, 11 Feb 2014, women ski jump for the first time at the winter Olympics.
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#OnThisDay, 11 Feb 1989, the Rev Barbara Harris is consecrated, the first woman to become a Bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion.
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#OnThisDay, 10 Feb 1917, plant pathologist Johanna Westerdijk becomes the first woman appointed as a professor in the Netherlands when she joins Utrecht University.
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#OnThisDay, 6 Feb 1987, Mary Gaudron QC was the first woman to be sworn as a justice in the High Court of Australia.
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#OnThisDay, 5 Feb 1919, Mary Pickford co-founds United Artists in Hollywood.
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#OnThisDay, 3 Feb 1995, Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle on a mission when she took the helm of #Discovery.
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