This simple act of defiance led to her quickly becoming a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement, and sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
Within two decades, Edison’s invention of the phonograph had spawned an entire industry built around the recording, distribution and sale of sound recordings.
American surgeon Dr Mary Walker became the first, and so far only, woman to receive the Medal of Honor.
Announcements were made before, during and after the radio broadcast that the events in War of the Worlds were fictitious, but it was clear that these warnings went unheeded by many.
Because America’s part of the agreement was kept secret, Khrushchev appeared to have ‘lost’. The reality is that both sides made concessions.
Although the scale of panic selling did slow down, the market continued its downward trajectory for over 2 years.
The White House was built as part of the development of the Federal City – a national capital founded under the terms of the 1790 Residence Act.
President George Washington wrote to Congress, stating that the military was something on which the “honor, safety and well being of our Country so evidently and essentially depend.”
The Moscow–Washington hotline entered operation, providing a direct link between the Kremlin and the Pentagon.
Black teenager Emmett Till was murdered for allegedly flirting with and offending a white woman in Mississippi.
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
