Siege of Marawi

01Ban Zhao completed the Han Shu (Book of Han) after her brother Ban Gu was executed in 92 CE — becoming China's first known female historian.
02Her Nüjie (Lessons for Women) prescribed that wives must address their husbands as 'lord' and never contradict them publicly.
03Ban Zhao was also a court astronomer who calculated calendrical corrections — her mathematical work circulated separately from her domestic ethics texts.

Piles of new Notgeld banknotes awaiting distribution at the Reichsbank during the hyperinflation

01Gerda Wegener's paintings of 'Lili' were exhibited and celebrated in Paris art circles in the 1920s before Einar's transition.
02Einar underwent at least four surgeries in Dresden and Berlin between 1930 and 1931 — among the earliest such procedures on record.
03The Danish government annulled Einar and Gerda's marriage in 1930, one of the first such legal acts related to gender transition in Europe.

In 2017, Hapilon's ISIS-aligned Abu Sayyaf faction and the Maute group held Marawi — a Philippine city of 200,000 — for 154 days. The military retook it building by building; most of the city was leveled in the process.