Dred Scott was a slave owned by John Emerson, an army surgeon from the slave state of Missouri.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
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.
HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018