Rioting continued for another five nights and acted as a catalyst for LGBT political activism.
3rd February 1961: Operation Looking Glass begins its 29-year Cold War flight above the USA
3rd February 2021
On the 17th June 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbour on board the French steam ship Isère.
Kennedy joked that he could ‘retire after having had “Happy Birthday” sung to me in such a sweet, wholesome way.’
These original New York stockbrokers traded from the Tontine Coffee House at 82 Wall Street before moving to their first dedicated trading space in 1817.
The British ship RMS Lusitania sank after being attacked by the German U-boat U-20 off the coast of Ireland.
Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was confined to permanent quarantine on North Brother Island in New York.
Mattel’s iconic Barbie doll made its debut at New York Toy Fair.
The resulting record was released in May, and went on to sell hundreds of thousands of copies.
Blackwell graduated first in her class and became the first woman to achieve a medical degree in the United States.
The organization now boasts more than 1.2 million members and continues to provide legal support where individual rights and liberties are threatened.
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