Dred Scott was a slave owned by John Emerson, an army surgeon from the slave state of Missouri.
10th November 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates Dr David Livingstone in Africa
10th November 2017
Having previously served as a senator and later military governor for the state of Tennessee, Andrew Johnson was chosen by Abraham Lincoln to be his running mate in the election of 1864.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, under his pen-name Mark Twain, had previously published the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in which the character of Huckleberry “Huck” Finn is introduced for the first time.
On the 19th November 1863, US President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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.
20th September 1066: Harald Hardrada wins Battle of Fulford
20th September 2019
19th September 1879: The Blackpool Illuminations turned on for the first time
19th September 2019
18th September 1931: Manchurian Crisis begins after Japanese bomb
18th September 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017
