20th Century
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Roberts was born on 13th October 1925 in Grantham, Lincolnshire. Her parents, Alfred and Beatrice Roberts ran a...
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Desegregation at Little Rock
In 1957 the Little Rock School Board had approved a desegregation programme which allowed nine coloured students to be enrolled...
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The First Tanks
Tanks were used for the first time in the First World War at the Battle of the Somme. They were...
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Jimi Hendrix
Johnny Allen Hendrix was born on November 27th 1942 in Seattle, America. Hendrix had a disadvantaged childhood - his father...
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The Dead Sea Scrolls
In the Spring of 1947 a group of Bedouin people discovered a number of ancient scrolls that had been placed...
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The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera was the title of a story written by Gaston Leroux. It was first published in...
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First Ascent of the South-West Face of Everest
In 1953 Edmund Hillary and sherpa Tensing Norgay had been the first people to reach the summit of mount Everest....
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Operation Market Garden 1944
Operation Market Garden was an allied plan to advance into the Netherlands and secure bridges that would enable them to...
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Tripartite Pact 1940
The Tripartite Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan on September 27th 1940, was an agreement to seek to further the...
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The Munich Agreement 1938
In May 1938 Adolf Hitler had completed an anschluss with Austria. Britain and France had largely ignored this action, neither...
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