Piltdown Man hoax / Ella Fitzgerald wins Apollo Amateur Night - November 21st Flashback
Nov 21, 2023
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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.