On July 29, 1981, Diana Spencer married Prince Charles in what many saw as a fairy-tale wedding. Diana was the first British citizen to marry an heir to the British throne in 300 years.

Princess Diana's Wedding.

It's not exactly wordless today, as the image depicts some famous words from the woman suffrage movement:

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Charlotte Corday, known for killing Jean Paul Marat in his bath during the period of the French Revolution, was born on July 27, 1768. Though she was among the more moderate Girondists, she decided to avenge the execution of fellow Girondists by Jacobins, by killing a publisher who had been calling for those executions. Read more: Charlotte Corday

Simone de Beauvoir wrote about feminism and existentialism, and also produced fiction. Her book "The Second Sex" is a feminist classic. De Beauvoir argues that, while men and women may have different tendencies, each person is unique, and it is culture not nature which has enforced a uniform set of expectations of what is "feminine" as contrasted to what is "human" which is equated with what is male.

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