Born in 1865 in an extremely orthodox Brahmin family in Maharashtra, a 9-year-old girl got married to a widower who was almost thrice her age. The girl, later on, became the first Indian woman to qualify as a doctor. #myedubuddy#newpost#todayinhistory#anandibaijoshi
On 26 March 1974, Gaura Devi, a peasant woman, gathered other women around her in a village in the Garhwal Himalayas and by hugging trees and through other forms of defiance together.
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In 1854, Philadelphia-based brothers William and Frederick Langenheim photographed the first solar eclipse since photography's invention in 1839. #myedubuddy#newpost#todayinhistory#SolarEclipse