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Piltdown Man hoax / Ella Fitzgerald wins Apollo Amateur Night - November 21st Flashback

Piltdown Man hoax / Ella Fitzgerald wins Apollo Amateur Night - November 21st Flashback

This Day in History Class

November 21, 202313m 20s

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On this day in 1953, the Piltdown Man, supposedly the remains of a missing evolutionary link between apes and humans, was revealed to be a hoax in the press.

On this day in 1934, at 17-years-old, Ella Fitzgerald became the first female performer to win Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.

 

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