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25th June 1678: Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a PhD

25th June 2022
Tagged as: Education, Feminism, Italy, Padua, Philosophy, Renaissance, Venice

Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Philosophy, otherwise known as a Ph.D.

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28th May 585 BCE: Eclipse of Thales ends the Battle of Halys between Media and Lydia

28th May 2020
Tagged as: Anatolia, Ancient, Ancient Greece, Eclipse, Herodotus, Lydia, Media, Middle East, Philosophy, Science, Thales

A solar eclipse during the Battle of Halys led to a truce between the kingdoms of Media and Lydia, making it the earliest historical event that can be precisely dated.

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25th June 1678: Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a PhD

28th May 585 BCE: Eclipse of Thales ends the Battle of Halys between Media and Lydia

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

6th February 1958: Munich Air Disaster kills 23 members of the Manchester United football team after BEA flight 609 crashes at Munich-Riem airport

5th February 1958: Nuclear bomb lost off Tybee Island in Georgia, USA after an in-air collision

4th February 1945: Yalta Conference begins, attended by the ‘Big Three’ of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin

3rd February 1961: Operation Looking Glass begins its 29-year Cold War flight above the USA

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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