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 (200 years ago today): 1825 – The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
Births (250 years ago today): 1775 – Louisa Adams, 6th First Lady of the United States (d. 1852)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Anthony Berry, English politician (d. 1984)[39]
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Joan Mitchell, American-French painter (d. 1992)
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Scot Pollard, American basketball player and actor[53]
Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Carl Lutz, Swiss vice-consul to Hungary during WWII, credited with saving over 62,000 Jews (b. 1895)
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