Thriller was released just three weeks after mixing was finished and proved so popular that it was selling a million copies a week at its height.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
When Kennedy’s motorcade was barely five minutes away from its destination, gunshots rang out as it passed the Texas School Book Depository.
Opening with the famous line ‘Four score and seven years ago,’ Lincoln made the 2-minute speech to an assembled crowd of approximately 15,000 people including six separate state governors.
Sesame Street was first conceived in 1966 as a way to provide low-income, inner-city children with an educational foundation ready for when they began formal schooling.
‘Stand By Me’ went on to be voted one of the Songs of the Century by the Recording Industry Association of America.
The gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place between the Earp brothers and a gang of outlaws in Tombstone, Arizona.
The Model T was enormously successful, and at one point half of all automobiles on the road were not just Ford cars but Model Ts.
The first United States presidential debate took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
The Judiciary Act was passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by President George Washington.
The poem Defence of Fort M’Henry provides an account of the British attack on the United States during the Battle of Baltimore.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2022
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2022
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018