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ActiveHistory provides educational, award-winning interactive simulations, decision-making games, self-marking quizzes, high-quality worksheets and detailed lesson plans for the school history classroom. All resources have been designed by full-time history teacher Russel Tarr.
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These consist not just of lesson plans, worksheets and teacher notes, but also multimedia lectures and interactive games and historical simulations ideal for remote learning and self-study.
World History teaching resources for the high school classroom: lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes and simulation games for KS3, IGCSE, IB and A-Level teachers.
This page is updated daily to provide the latest history-related news, podcasts and anniversaries. You can sign up for the weekly email newsletter which provides a list of forthcoming historical anniversaries and recently released podcasts. You can also make use of the Historical Anniversaries Calendar for the current academic year.
Anniversaries [embed into YOUR website!]
Events (50 years ago today): 1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children in the closing stages of the war begins.[20]
Events (50 years ago today): 1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
Births (150 years ago today): 1875 – Mistinguett, French actress and singer (d. 1956)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Tony Benn, English pilot and politician, Secretary of State for Industry (d. 2014)
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Shawn Bates, American ice hockey player
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Michael Olowokandi, Nigerian-American basketball player
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Aries Spears, American comedian and actor
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Yoshinobu Takahashi, Japanese baseball player
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Koji Uehara, Japanese baseball player
Deaths (700 years ago today): 1325 – Nizamuddin Auliya, Sufi saint (b. 1238)
Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Mary Ure, Scottish-English actress (b. 1933)
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