When the two-day sale ended on 3 March, 429 slaves had been sold.
21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
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It was sent to the states for ratification the next day, a process that was concluded on 6 December after the necessary three-quarters of states approved it.
On the 9th March 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that captive Africans who had seized control of the Amistad ship had been taken into slavery illegally and were therefore free under American law.
Dred Scott was a slave owned by John Emerson, an army surgeon from the slave state of Missouri.
Having previously served as a senator and later military governor for the state of Tennessee, Andrew Johnson was chosen by Abraham Lincoln to be his running mate in the election of 1864.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, under his pen-name Mark Twain, had previously published the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in which the character of Huckleberry “Huck” Finn is introduced for the first time.
On the 29th November 1781, the crew of the slave ship Zong threw the first of at least 132 African slaves overboard in a massacre intended to allow them to cash in their insurance policy.
Henry Morton Stanley, a Welsh-American journalist and explorer, allegedly greeted the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone with the phrase, “Dr Livingston, I presume?”
Abraham Lincoln was elected barely five months before the outbreak of the American Civil War, and was assassinated less than a month before its end.
On the 13th October 1792 the cornerstone of the White House, which at the time was to be known as the United States Executive Mansion, was laid.
13th April 1919: British troops commit the Amritsar Massacre
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12th April 1945: Harry Truman becomes president of the USA
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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