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386 Episoade

1. 6th December 1969: Meredith Hunter killed at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival

   Publicat: 06.12.2024
2. 5th December 1955: Montgomery bus boycott begins in Alabama, marking a pivotal moment in the American Civil Rights Movement

   Publicat: 05.12.2024
3. 4th December 1872: Deserted US merchant ship Mary Celeste found drifting in the Atlantic

   Publicat: 04.12.2024
4. 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
5. 2nd December 1954: US Senator Joseph McCarthy censured by the Senate

   Publicat: 02.12.2024
6. 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
7. 30th November 1786: Tuscany becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty

   Publicat: 30.11.2024
8. 29th November 1972: Pong is officially released by Atari, and soon becomes the first commercially successful video game

   Publicat: 29.11.2024
9. 28th November 1943: The Tehran Conference begins, marking the first meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin

   Publicat: 28.11.2024
10. 27th November 1924: First Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade takes place in New York City

    Publicat: 27.11.2024
11. 26th November 1805: The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the highest canal aqueduct in the world, opens in North Wales

    Publicat: 26.11.2024
12. 25th November 1952: Agatha Christie’s play The Mousetrap opens in London, later to become the longest-running play in the world

    Publicat: 25.11.2024
13. 24th November 1873: Joseph Glidden awarded a patent for modern barbed wire

    Publicat: 24.11.2024
14. 23rd November 1963: First ever episode of Doctor Who broadcast by on BBC television

    Publicat: 23.11.2024
15. 22nd November 1718: The pirate Blackbeard killed by sailors under Robert Maynard

    Publicat: 22.11.2024
16. 21st November 1877: Thomas Edison announced his phonograph, the world’s first practical machine that could record and play sound

    Publicat: 21.11.2024
17. 20th November 1969: Native Americans begin their occupation of Alcatraz Island

    Publicat: 20.11.2024
18. 19th November 1985: Reagan and Gorbachev meet for the first time at the Geneva Summit

    Publicat: 19.11.2024
19. 18th November 1883: The Day of Two Noons sees four standard time zones applied across the continental United States

    Publicat: 18.11.2024
20. 17th November 1894: H. H. Holmes, one of America’s earliest serial killers, apprehended in Boston

    Publicat: 17.11.2024