#OnThisDay, 13 Aug 2014, Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal for her work on complex geometry. She was the first woman to win it since it began in 1936. She died in 2017, aged just 40. Multiple awards and initiatives are named after her. #WomenInSTEM

#OnThisDay, 17 Aug 2012, Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Yekaterina Samutsevich of Pussy Riot are sentenced to two years in a prison colony for an anti-Putin protest.

#OnThisDay, 5 Aug 1888, Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim: the first journey of 100+km in a car by *anyone*. She'd got tired of her husband tinkering with his prototype so took it on the road with her sons. And without him. Along the way, she made running repairs to the engine and realised there would need to be refueling stations. #WomenInSTEM #EuropeanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons