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#OnThisDay, 18 May 1953, Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman pilot to break the sound barrier.

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A posed photo of Jackie Cochran sitting on the edge of her plane. She's a white woman with blonde hair and is rather implausibly wearing high heels. Breaking the sound barrier as a pilot? In these shoes? I don't think so.
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17 May is Día das Letras Galegas (Galician Literature Day).

#OnThisDay, 17 May 1863, María Rosalía Rita de Castro's poetry is published. It’s the first publication by a single author in Galician for 400 years. The public holiday was introduced to celebrate the centenary of Rosalia de Castro's work.

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A Spanish bank note which includes a drawing of María Rosalía Rita de Castro.
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Very early #OnThisDay, 6 May 1944, Marguerite 'Peggy' Knight parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance.

Knight fought her way out of an attempted capture, and returned to the UK in September 1944.

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Marguerite 'Peggy' Knight after world war two, with a toddler on her back and a baby sat before her. She is a white woman with dark hair.
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