World History teaching resources for the high school classroom: lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes and simulation games for KS3, IGCSE, IB and A-Level teachers.
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Events (150 years ago today): 1876 - Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.
Births (100 years ago today): 1926 - Joan Lorring, British actress (died 2014)
Births (100 years ago today): 1926 - Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (died 2004)
Births (50 years ago today): 1976 - Maurice Wignall, Jamaican hurdler and long jumper
Deaths (50 years ago today): 1976 - Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1895)
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