"We Can Do It!" is an American wartime propaganda poster produced by J.
Howard Miller in 1943 for Westinghouse Electric to boost worker morale.
The poster is generally thought to be based on a black-and-white wire
service photograph taken of a Michigan factory worker named Geraldine
Hoff. During World War II the image was strictly internal to
Westinghouse, displayed only during February 1943, and was not for
recruitment but to exhort already-hired women to work harder. It was
rediscovered in the early 1980s and widely reproduced in many forms,
often called "We Can Do It!" but also called "Rosie the Riveter"
after
the iconic figure of a strong female war production worker. The "We Can
Do It!" image was used to promote feminism and other political issues
beginning in the 1980s. The image made the cover of the Smithsonian
magazine in 1994 and was fashioned into a US first-class mail stamp in
1999. It was incorporated in 2008 into campaign materials for several US
politicians, and was reworked by an artist in 2010 to celebrate the
first woman becoming prime minister of Australia. The poster is one of
the ten most-requested images at the National Archives and Records
Administration.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Do_It!>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1898:
The United States Navy battleship USS Maine exploded and sank
in Havana, Cuba (wreckage pictured), killing more than 260 people and
precipitating the Spanish–American War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(ACR-1)>
1949:
Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux began excavations
at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves in the West Bank region of Jordan, the
location of the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qumran_Caves>
1965:
Canada adopted the Maple Leaf flag, replacing the Canadian Red
Ensign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Canada>
1979:
Don Dunstan resigned as Premier of South Australia, ending a
decade of sweeping social liberalisation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Dunstan>
2003:
In one of the largest anti-war rallies in history, millions
around the world in approximately 800 cities took part in protests
against the impending invasion of Iraq.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_15,_2003_anti-war_protest>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bridge the gap:
(idiomatic) To serve as or create a connection between two disconnected
or disparate things.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bridge_the_gap>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the
merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
--Alfred North Whitehead
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead>