#OnThisDay in 1987, #HayleyWestenra, New Zealand soprano and UNICEF ambassador, born in Christchurch, New Zealand.
#HappyBirthday #38

#OnThisDay, 10 Apr 1974, Pauline McGibbon is sworn in as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canada. She was the first woman to hold the role.

Today in 1998, 27 years ago: The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland.

Today in 2013, 12 years ago: in Uruguay, the Law on Equal Marriage was approved.

"I don’t wear men’s clothes, I wear my own."

#OnThisDay, 10 Apr 1864, army surgeon Dr Mary Edwards Walker is captured by the Confederates during the US Civil War. She later receives the Medal of Honor.

As well as serving in the Civil War, and being a dress reformer who preferred to wear trousers, she was also a suffragist who declined to take her husband’s name when they married.

On this day in 1516, Venice compels Jews to live in a specific area, establishing the first Jewish ghetto. #Jews

On this day in 1970, The Beatles, one of the most successful bands of all time, break up. #Beatles #Music

On this day in 1998, the Good Friday Agreement for Northern Ireland is signed by the British and Irish governments. #Ireland #UK

On this day in 2010, the President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, dies in a plane crash. #Poland

#onthisday 1891 stirbt John Adams Whipple. Von ihm haben wir eine der ersten und besten noch erhaltenen scharfen Daguerrotypien des Monds.
https://fotomenschen.kopfstim.me/tag/john-adams-whipple/

752 years ago today. Lady Devorgilla of Galloway founded Sweetheart Abbey south of Dumfries on 10 April 1273, as a symbol of her love for her husband John Balliol, who had died in 1268. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/newabbey/sweetheartabbey/index.html

#Scotland #Sweetheart Abbey #DumfriesAndGalloway #OnThisDay

Today in 1932, 93 years ago: in Germany, President Paul von Hindenburg is re-elected, defeating Adolf Hitler by a large majority in Germany's third and last (popular) presidential election.

#OnThisDay in 2014, 29th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: #PeterGabriel; Hall & Oates; KISS; #Nirvana; #LindaRonstadt; #CatStevens; The E Street Band; #BrianEpstein; and Andrew Loog Oldham.

The Consular Service: Sun (Auckland) #OnThisDay 10 April 1929: Mr. Tsin Shuing Ou, new Chinese Consul-General in New Zealand, has arrived in Wellington. He has seen service in Peru, Brazil and Australia
https://wellingtonchinesehistory.fandom.com/wiki/The_Consular_Service_(10_April_1929)_Sun_(Auckland)

Today in 1947, 78 years ago: The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.

_The Evening Post_, 10 April 1924:
WOMEN IN
PRINT.
…
A Press Association message from #Christchurch states that at the Christchurch #Presbytery yesterday a motion, “That the Presbytery initiate the necessary steps to amend the Book of Orders [i.e., Book of Order] to admit #women as #elders of the Church,” was lost, only the mover and seconder voting for it.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240410.2.111

#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #PresbyterianChurch #NewZealand

The Presbyterian Church in NZ voted to admit women as elders in 1954 https://teara.govt.nz/en/presbyterian-church/page-2

Today in 2012, 13 years ago: Facebook buys Instagram.

Recorded #OnThisDay 46 years ago:

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peel Session 1979

The complete session recorded by Siouxsie and the Banshees on 9 April 1979 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 16th of that month.

Tracklist:

1. Placebo Effect (0:07)
2. Playground Twist (4:37)
3. Regal Zone (7:46)
4. Poppy Day (11:44)

https://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2013/12/siouxsie-and-banshees-peel-session-1979.html

Today in 1953, 72 years ago: in the United States, Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film, entitled The Wax House.

#OnThisDay, April 9, 1413, Henry V was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey (depicted in The King, 2019)

Happy 160th anniversary of a bunch of murderous cowards finally giving up on the idea that they should own other human beings.

"The Battle of Appomattox Court House [...] was the final engagement of Confederate General in Chief Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia before they surrendered to the Union Army of the Potomac under the Commanding General of the United States Army, Ulysses S. Grant."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Appomattox_Court_House

Today in 1959, 66 years ago: Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".

#OnThisDay in 1988, #DavePrater, American R&B singer and musician (Sam & Dave - "Soul Man"), died in a car crash at 50.
#RIP