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398 Episoade

1. 18th December 1898: The world’s first officially recognised land speed record is set

   Publicat: 18.12.2024
2. 17th December 1903: Wright brothers make the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight

   Publicat: 17.12.2024
3. 16th December 1773: The Boston Tea Party throws a shipment of tea into Boston Harbor

   Publicat: 16.12.2024
4. 15th December 1933: The Twenty-first Amendment to the US Constitution repeals prohibition

   Publicat: 15.12.2024
5. 14th December 1287: St Lucia’s Flood kills over 50,000 people around the North Sea

   Publicat: 14.12.2024
6. 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
7. 12th December 1963: Kenya gains independence from the United Kingdom

   Publicat: 12.12.2024
8. 11th December 1866: The first transatlantic yacht race begins in Sandy Hook, New Jersey

   Publicat: 11.12.2024
9. 10th December 1799: France adopts the metric system for weights and measures

   Publicat: 10.12.2024
10. 9th December 1965: A Charlie Brown Christmas first broadcast by American television network CBS

    Publicat: 09.12.2024
11. 8th December 1660: The first woman appears on a professional stage in England in Othello

    Publicat: 08.12.2024
12. 7th December 1941: The Imperial Japanese Navy attack the United States’ Hawaiian naval base at Pearl Harbor

    Publicat: 07.12.2024
13. 6th December 1969: Meredith Hunter killed at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival

    Publicat: 06.12.2024
14. 5th December 1955: Montgomery bus boycott begins in Alabama, marking a pivotal moment in the American Civil Rights Movement

    Publicat: 05.12.2024
15. 4th December 1872: Deserted US merchant ship Mary Celeste found drifting in the Atlantic

    Publicat: 04.12.2024
16. 3rd December 1973: NASA’s Pioneer 10 becomes the first space probe to send close-up images of the planet Jupiter

    Publicat: 03.12.2024
17. 2nd December 1954: US Senator Joseph McCarthy censured by the Senate

    Publicat: 02.12.2024
18. 1st December 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after the white section of the bus became full

    Publicat: 01.12.2024
19. 30th November 1786: Tuscany becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty

    Publicat: 30.11.2024
20. 29th November 1972: Pong is officially released by Atari, and soon becomes the first commercially successful video game

    Publicat: 29.11.2024