20th Century
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, a 43 year old black seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, on 5th December 1955 for refusing to...
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The Quest to Reach the South Pole
Antarctica had first been sighted in 1820 by a Russian team of explorers led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and...
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USSR Established
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (also known as the Soviet Union) was established on 30th December 1922 by the...
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