A referendum in South Africa resulted in white South Africans voting to end apartheid.
21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
21st November 2020
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.
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.
13th April 1919: British troops commit the Amritsar Massacre
13th April 2021
12th April 1945: Harry Truman becomes president of the USA
12th April 2021
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019