#OnThisDay, 8 May 1946, Estonian teens Aili Jürgenson and Ageeda Paavel blew up a Soviet war memorial in response to Soviet destruction of Estonian war memorials. They served eight years in the gulag as punishment.
In 1988 they were awarded the Estonian Order of the Cross of the Eagle to recognise their fight.
We only have a photo of Aili Jürgenson.
#OnThisDay, 7 May 1429, Jeanne d'Arc leads the French troops into the last day of fighting to lift the Siege of Orleans.
Read more at https://carvehername.org.uk/joan-of-arc-7-may-1429/
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#OnThisDay, 29 April 1945, French women vote for the first time.
Newsreel: https://www.ina.fr/video/AFE86003075
#OnThisDay, 18 Apr 1905, Baroness Bertha von Suttner becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism.
As well as writing an influential novel, Lay Down Your Arms (1889), she founded the German Peace Society in 1892. In 1907 she was the only woman to attend the Second Hague Peace Convention, and warned that Europe was heading for war once again.
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A study of 50,000 houses from the late Pleistocene to the onset of European colonialism has revealed that social inequality isn't inevitable, but rather a consequence of political choices.
I mean, like, obviously.
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/inequality-isnt-new-but-its-far-from-inevitable-10-000-year-archeological-study-reveals
#SocialInequality #Inequality #Pleistocene #Archaeology #EuropeanHistory #PoliticalHistory
#OnThisDay, 13 Apr 1985, Danuta Danielsson hits a neo-Nazi with her handbag in Växjö, Sweden. Yes, that photo by Hans Runesson.
Danuta had been born in Poland in 1947, after her Jewish mother had survived a concentration camp.
#OnThisDay, 12 Apr 1229, regent Blanche of Castile oversees the signing of the Treaty of Paris on behalf of her son, King Louis IX. She had previously raised an army to defend his territories against Raymond VII of Toulouse.
#OnThisDay, 9 Apr 1944, Lise de Baissac returns to France to resume work as a Special Operations Executive courier. The British SOE supported the French resistance.
She gathered and passed on information, and took part in armed attacks. At one point she rented a room in a house occupied by the local commander of the German Forces.
Muriel Byck also arrives to be a SOE wireless operator. She dies of meningitis whilst still in France.
Very early #OnThisDay, 6 Apr 1944, Lillian Rolfe and Violette Szabo separately arrive in occupied France to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SEO). Rolfe is a wireless operator, Szabo a courier.
Szabo returns to the UK at the end of April but goes back to France in June 1944 and is captured. Rolfe is captured in July 1944.
They are executed together, by shooting, in Ravensbrück concentration camp in Feb 1945.
Why is a bridge in Sarajevo named after two women?
#OnThisDay, 5 Apr 1992, Suada Dilberović, a Muslim, and Olga Sučić, a Catholic, were killed whilst on a peace protest in Sarajevo during the outbreak of the Bosnian war. They are the first civilian casualties in what became the Siege of Sarajevo. The siege lasted 1,425 days, and over 5,000 civilians were killed during it.
The bridge they died on has been renamed in their memory.
#OnThisDay, 24 Mar 1944, Éliane Plewman is arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied France after six months operating as a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance. A courier carried messages and equipment around their network.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory #SOE
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Arturo Zoffman's lecture at Sabanci University on his new project, ‘The Constitutional Road to Dictatorship’, funded by the European Research Council, is available on YouTube.
The lecture took place in the context of Arturo's research stay funded by the Erasmus+ programme.
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Contrary to what many might think, it’s not just students who “go on Erasmus” to other countries. An example of this is researcher Arturo Zoffmann, who went to Turkey to spend a month at Sabancı University in Istanbul with the support of the Erasmus+ programme. 
What is he doing there? We'll tell you here: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/arturo-zoffmann-erasmus-istambul/
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March 4th 1875 saw the birth of Count Mihály Károlyi, who from November 1918 to March 1919 was president of the First Hungarian Republic.
The francophile, left leaning aristocrat's attempt to lead Hungary into an era of reform and peaceful multinationality was thwarted by a French backed territorial dismemberment, Béla Kun's disastrous attempt to sovietize Hunagary, and the eventual violent seizure of power by the reactionary regime of Admiral Horthy.
In exile until his return to Hungary in 1946, he served as ambassador of Hungary to France from 1947 -1949, when he resigned in protest against the show trial and judicial murder of László Rajk. He died in France in 1955.
Károlyi remains controversial. Hungarian rightwingers revile him as a traitor who allowed Hungary to be carved up. I see him as a tragic figure, whose faith in liberal ideals could not prevail in 1919 against the ruthless power politics of the Allies on the one hand and of the Bolsheviks on the other.
I want to return to "Against the World", the memoir he published in 1925. I read parts of it years ago, and remember him painting a vivid picture of growing up in an aristocratic family during the last years of the Habsburg empire.
Image: Mihály Károlyi -- Wikimedia Commons -- Public domain
#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany.
Her cellmate said her last words to her were “how can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause... It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go.”
Cláudia Ninhos is one of the authors of the article ‘Travailleurs portugais et espagnols dans l'Allemagne nazie : trajectoires parallèles, chemins croisés’, published in the journal Exils et migrations ibériques aux XXe et XXIe siècles.
In it, the authors show how the life stories of Portuguese and Spanish labourers crossed paths several times in Nazi Germany.
https://shs.cairn.info/revue-exils-et-migrations-iberiques-2024-3-page-197
