... that in an era when women of African descent had little access to education or public role models, the Black Cross Nurses(pictured) trained them in healthcare, allowing them to be seen in leadership roles?
... that in 1898 Sir Joseph Terry died of heart failure due to over-exertion while attempting to win a by-election in York?
... that the Negro Labor Committee was formed in 1935 so that African Americans could be allowed to join labor unions?
1766 – A mutiny by captive Malagasy began at sea on the slave ship Meermin, leading to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators.
The Fall of Phaeton is a painting by the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens depicting the Greek myth of Phaeton, the son of the sun god Apollo. In the myth, Phaeton received permission to drive the Sun chariot around Earth, but was unable to control the chariot and risked incinerating the world. Zeus was thus forced to kill him.
Rubens painted The Fall of Phaeton in Rome c. 1604/1605; the painting was probably reworked later, around 1606/1608. It is housed in the National Gallery of Art.
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