Congress formally recognized the Pledge when it was included in the U.S. Flag Code.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The money allowed for the purchase of approximately 3,000 volumes from England that were housed in the north wing of the Capitol building.
Blackwell graduated first in her class and became the first woman to achieve a medical degree in the United States.
On the 10th November 1969, the American children’s television show Sesame Street was broadcast for the first time.
Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Philosophy, otherwise known as a Ph.D.
On the 4th September 1957 a group of nine black schoolchildren were prevented from entering the previously segregated Little Rock Central High School by the Arkansas National Guard acting on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus.
Officially titled Encyclopædia Britannica, or, A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, compiled upon a New Plan, the Britannica was published in three volumes over a three year period.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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