"I like to be at the front of great movements as far as possible."

#OnThisDay, 30 June 1870, Ada Kepley became the first woman to graduate from law college in the USA.

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British author and educator Jane Marcet died #OTD in 1858.

Her popular science books were among the first to bring such subjects into the domestic sphere, inspiring a generation of future scientists and thinkers. Her book "Conversations on Chemistry" (1805) served as a foundational text for many, including Michael Faraday, who credited it with sparking his interest in science.

Books by Jane Marcet at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/32323

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#OnThisDay, 26 Jun 1949, all Belgian women are able to vote in Parliamentary elections for the first time.

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#OTD in 1947. The Diary of a Young Girl is published.

The book was written while Anne Frank was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944, & Anne died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Anne's diaries were retrieved by Miep Gies & Bep Voskuijl. Miep gave them to Anne's father, Otto, the family's only survivor, just after the World War II was over.

https://www.annefrank.ch/en/diary

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