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386 Episoade

1. 26th December 1973: Horror film The Exorcist first released in cinemas

   Publicat: 26.12.2024
2. 25th December 1066: William of Normandy, known as William the Conqueror, crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey

   Publicat: 25.12.2024
3. 24th December 1826: The Eggnog Riot broke out at West Point Military Academy, New York

   Publicat: 24.12.2024
4. 23rd December 1823: The poem A Visit from St Nicholas, better known as The Night Before Christmas, published anonymously in the Troy Sentinel

   Publicat: 23.12.2024
5. 22nd December 1971: Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) officially established in Paris, France

   Publicat: 22.12.2024
6. 21st December 1620: The first Mayflower Pilgrims land at Plymouth

   Publicat: 21.12.2024
7. 20th December 1951: EBR-I in Idaho becomes the first nuclear reactor to generate usable electricity

   Publicat: 20.12.2024
8. 19th December 1487: Largest recorded human sacrifices in Mesoamerican history at the Sixth Great Temple of Tenochtitlan

   Publicat: 19.12.2024
9. 18th December 1898: The world’s first officially recognised land speed record is set

   Publicat: 18.12.2024
10. 17th December 1903: Wright brothers make the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight

    Publicat: 17.12.2024
11. 16th December 1773: The Boston Tea Party throws a shipment of tea into Boston Harbor

    Publicat: 16.12.2024
12. 15th December 1933: The Twenty-first Amendment to the US Constitution repeals prohibition

    Publicat: 15.12.2024
13. 14th December 1287: St Lucia’s Flood kills over 50,000 people around the North Sea

    Publicat: 14.12.2024
14. 13th December 1939: The Battle of the River Plate takes place off the coast of Uruguay and Argentina as the first major naval battle of WW2

    Publicat: 13.12.2024
15. 12th December 1963: Kenya gains independence from the United Kingdom

    Publicat: 12.12.2024
16. 11th December 1866: The first transatlantic yacht race begins in Sandy Hook, New Jersey

    Publicat: 11.12.2024
17. 10th December 1799: France adopts the metric system for weights and measures

    Publicat: 10.12.2024
18. 9th December 1965: A Charlie Brown Christmas first broadcast by American television network CBS

    Publicat: 09.12.2024
19. 8th December 1660: The first woman appears on a professional stage in England in Othello

    Publicat: 08.12.2024
20. 7th December 1941: The Imperial Japanese Navy attack the United States’ Hawaiian naval base at Pearl Harbor

    Publicat: 07.12.2024