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
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.
10th September 1991: Nirvana release ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’
10th September 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
19th January 1920: Foundation of the American Civil Liberties Union
19th January 2021
18th January 1919: The Paris Peace Conference begins
18th January 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