540 Episoade

  1. 15th December 1851: The Forest Creek Monster Meeting of Australian gold miners protests taxes

    Publicat: 15.12.2025

  2. 14th December 1911: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen becomes the first to reach the South Pole

    Publicat: 14.12.2025

  3. 13th December 1577: Francis Drake departs Plymouth on his circumnavigation of the globe

    Publicat: 13.12.2025

  4. 12th December 1935: The Lebensborn registered association established in Nazi Germany by the SS

    Publicat: 12.12.2025

  5. 11th December 1936: King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom announces his abdication in a worldwide radio broadcast

    Publicat: 11.12.2025

  6. 10th December 1948: Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris

    Publicat: 10.12.2025

  7. 9th December 1921: Lead identified as a fuel additive to reduce engine knocking in automobiles

    Publicat: 09.12.2025

  8. 8th December 1980: John Lennon murdered outside his New York apartment block by Mark David Chapman

    Publicat: 08.12.2025

  9. 7th December 1995: NASA’s Galileo spacecraft becomes the first to enter orbit around Jupiter

    Publicat: 07.12.2025

  10. 6th December 1956: The ‘Blood in the Water’ Olympic water polo match between the USSR and Hungary

    Publicat: 06.12.2025

  11. 5th December 1934: The Walwal Incident lays the foundations for the Abyssinia Crisis

    Publicat: 05.12.2025

  12. 4th December 1676: Battle of Lund fought between Denmark–Norway and Sweden, one of the bloodiest battles in Scandinavia

    Publicat: 04.12.2025

  13. 3rd December 1910: The world’s first neon light was turned on for the public at the Paris Motor Show

    Publicat: 03.12.2025

  14. 2nd December 1804: Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

    Publicat: 02.12.2025

  15. 1st December 1934: Assassination of Sergei Kirov, one of the most prominent figures in the Soviet Communist Party

    Publicat: 01.12.2025

  16. 30th November 1982: Michael Jackson releases Thriller, the best-selling album of all time

    Publicat: 30.11.2025

  17. 29th November 1850: The Declaration of Olmütz signed by Prussia and Austria

    Publicat: 29.11.2025

  18. 28th November 1660: The Royal Society founded at Gresham College in London by a group of notable natural philosophers

    Publicat: 28.11.2025

  19. 27th November 1809: The Berners Street hoax causes chaos in central London

    Publicat: 27.11.2025

  20. 26th November 1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon enter the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings

    Publicat: 26.11.2025

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