Female tennis player Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs, a former World No. 1 men’s player, in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’.
6th September 1522: Victoria becomes the first ship to circumnavigate the world
6th September 2018
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.
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.