The Moscow–Washington hotline entered operation, providing a direct link between the Kremlin and the Pentagon.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
Black teenager Emmett Till was murdered for allegedly flirting with and offending a white woman in Mississippi.
Political activist Abbie Hoffman and a group of protesters threw dollar bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Hawaii became the 50th state to join the United States of America after a referendum.
The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing all American women the right to vote.
The Panama Canal was officially opened to traffic with the transit of SS Ancon.
Alice Huyler Ramsey became the first woman to drive an automobile across a continent when she completed a 59-day road trip from New York to San Francisco.
William Kemmler became the first person to be executed using an electric chair.
American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.
The United States continues to be the world’s largest consumer of Spam, with the luncheon meat being a particularly big seller in Hawaii.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’
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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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