Taking place on the centenary of President Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation, in which he declared the freedom of slaves, ‘I Have a Dream’ was the sixteenth of eighteen speeches given by different orators that day and is regularly described as one of the best speeches of the 20th Century.
Dred Scott was a slave owned by John Emerson, an army surgeon from the slave state of Missouri.
Theatre in England had been banned by the Puritan Long Parliament in 1642 but, following the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, the ban was lifted.
A referendum in South Africa resulted in white South Africans voting to end apartheid.
Blackwell graduated first in her class and became the first woman to achieve a medical degree in the United States.
Female tennis player Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs, a former World No. 1 men’s player, in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’.
Elise Raymonde Deroche was the daughter of a Parisian plumber.
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