The refusal by the state of Arkansas to honour a Federal court order to integrate schools Army troops escorted 9 black students into Little Rock Central High School, an all-white public school.
What annual event, held on a Monday for children and their parents, that was started in 1814 by First Lady Dolley Madison in the grounds of the Capitol, Washington DC, USA, is now held on the White House lawn?
In 1957 the inaugural Uber Cup, the most important women's badminton team competition in the world, was won by competitors from which country?
What name was given to a series of violent events on 21 May 1979 in San Francisco, USA, sparked by the lenient sentencing (for voluntary manslaughter, the lightest possible) of Dan White for the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, which led to changes in the city's official attitude to gays?