Washington’s face was the first to be completed, seven years after work began. In July 1939 Roosevelt was the final likeness to be dedicated.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
Pete Harman of Salt Lake City, Utah, agreed to pay four cents on each chicken sold in return for using Sanders’ recipe and method and advertising using his name and likeness.
Female tennis player Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs, a former World No. 1 men’s player, in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’.
The first episode of American science fiction television series Star Trek was broadcast at 8.30pm on NBC.
The world’s first radio news program was broadcast on the station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
A local newspaper reported that the league was established to ‘raise the standard of professional football in every way possible, to eliminate bidding for players between rival clubs and to secure cooperation in the formation of schedules’.
Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau’s recording of Chopin waltzes was pressed at Philips’ Polydor Pressing Operations plant, with the pianist himself starting the machine.
Bugs Bunny made his first appearance in the Merrie Melodies cartoon A Wild Hare.
The Hollywood Bowl opened in Bolton Canyon near Los Angeles.
John Lennon was playing guitar with his skiffle band, The Quarrymen, who were performing on a bill alongside the Liverpool police dogs display team and the Band of the Cheshire Yeomanry.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2022
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019