Jackie Robinson breaks the colour line
1947 · Event
Robinson becomes the first Black player in modern Major League Baseball, a landmark of the US civil-rights story.
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- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
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- Death of Hitler / Fall of Berlin (1945)
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- Battle of Britain (1940)