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, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.

Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the 2010s. She is a white woman with dark grey hair.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the 1960s, in front of a radio telescope. she is a white woman with dark hair, wearing a sensible duffle coat given how cold it must have been out there.

, 25 Nov 1960, sisters Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal were assassinated for their political opposition to the Dominican dictator Trujillo.

In 1999, the UN designated 25 Nov as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in the sisters' memory. The day now marks the start of 16 days of activism against gender-based violence.

Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal. One is at the wheel of a jeep and the other two stand either side of her.

, 11 Nov 1865, Dr Mary Edwards Walker receives the Medal of Honor from US President Andrew Johnson for her services as a field surgeon in the American Civil War.

A lifelong "dress reformer", she wore trousers under short dresses and eventually switched to trousers and jackets. She was frequently arrested for her choice. "I don't wear men's clothes, I wear my own clothes," she said.

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Dr Mary Edwards Walker in later life. She is a white woman with white hair wearing trousers, a frock coat and a topper. She still has the medal on the breast of her coat.
Dr Mary Edwards Walker in a dress in around 1863, wearing the medal. She is a white woman with dark hair tied back.

21 Oct 1928 Giuseppe Pinelli, Italian anarchist and railway worker, was born. He would become famous as a result of his tragic murder in police custody following the Italian state's attempt to frame him for the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9428/giuseppe-pinelli-born

Front cover to Flatland (1884) by Edwin Abbott Abbott, who died in 1926. Read Ian Stewart's introduction to the strange tale of A. Square's geometric adventures, the first ever book that could be described as “mathematical fiction” https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/aspiring-to-a-higher-plane

, 10 Oct 1903, Emmeline Pankhurst and others form the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in Manchester, UK. Eventually known as the suffragettes, they fought for women to have the vote.

[photo circa 1906]

staged photo of the WSPU holding a meeting at a dining table. They are all white women.

in 1973 a military coup in Chile overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. Supported by the CIA, it installed a dictatorship led by General Pinochet that lasted until 1990.

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