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7th December 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • 7th December 2019
  • Tagged as: America, China, Japan, Military, Oil, Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt, Second World War, USA

At 7:48 on the morning of the 7th December 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack against the United States’ Hawaiian naval base at Pearl Harbor.

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2nd December 1954: US Senator Joseph McCarthy censured by the Senate

  • 2nd December 2019
  • Tagged as: America, Communism, Eisenhower, McCarthy, Politics, Senate, USA

United States Senator Joseph McCarthy was censured for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonour and disrepute.”

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1st December 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama

  • 1st December 2019
  • Tagged as: America, Civil Rights, Race, Racism, USA

On the 1st December 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama after the white section of the bus became full.

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24th November 1873: Joseph Glidden awarded a patent for modern barbed wire

  • 24th November 2019
  • Tagged as: America, Barbed Wire, Great Plains, Invention, Native Americans, Technology, USA, Wild West

Improved fencing systems were vital to the farmers who had headed west to settle in the Great Plains.

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20th November 1969: Native Americans begin their occupation of Alcatraz Island

  • 20th November 2019
  • Tagged as: Alcatraz, America, Native Americans, Occupation, Politics, San Francisco, USA

The Occupation of Alcatraz was launched by a group of 89 members of the Indians of All Tribes in an attempt to gain control under the Treaty of Fort Laramie that had been signed in 1868.

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19th November 1863: Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address

  • 19th November 2019
  • Tagged as: America, American Civil War, Civil War, Lincoln, USA

On the 19th November 1863, US President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

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16th November 1990: Milli Vanilli stripped of Grammy Award for not singing on their album

  • 16th November 2019
  • Tagged as: America, Culture, Frank Farian, Germany, Grammy, Lip-sync, Milli Vanilli, Miming, Music, USA

German pop duo Milli Vanilli were stripped of the Grammy Award for Best New Artist after it emerged that they did not sing any of the vocals on their debut album.

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14th November 1960: Ruby Bridges, first African-American to desegregate an elementary school

  • 14th November 2019
  • Tagged as: African-American, America, Civil Rights, Desegregation, New Orleans, Racism, USA

Bridges was born in 1954, the same year that the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that racially segregated schools were unconstitutional.

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6th November 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected as the 16th President of the USA

  • 6th November 2019
  • Tagged as: Abraham Lincoln, America, American Civil War, Democracy, Election, Lincoln, President, Slavery, USA

Abraham Lincoln was elected barely five months before the outbreak of the American Civil War, and was assassinated less than a month before its end.

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30th October 1938: War of the Worlds by Orson Welles is broadcast

  • 30th October 2019
  • Tagged as: America, Culture, Invasion, Mars, Media, Radio, Space, Theatre, USA

On the 30th October 1938, Orson Welles directed and narrated a radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds as part of the Mercury Theatre on the Air.

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