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.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
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.
Dred Scott was a slave owned by John Emerson, an army surgeon from the slave state of Missouri.
HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich
28th June 2015
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
