385 Episoade

  1. 3rd February 1959: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper killed in a plane crash known as ‘The Day the Music Died’

    Publicat: 03.02.2025
  2. 2nd February 1925: Great Race of Mercy delivers diptheria antitoxin to Nome by dogsled relay

    Publicat: 02.02.2025
  3. 1st February 1968: Viet Cong Captain Bảy Lốp executed by General Loan

    Publicat: 01.02.2025
  4. 31st January 1918: Battle of May Island damages and sinks Royal Navy vessels during accidental collisions in thick fog

    Publicat: 31.01.2025
  5. 30th January 1661: Oliver Cromwell posthumously executed, two and a half years after his death

    Publicat: 30.01.2025
  6. 29th January 1886: Karl Benz patents his Motorwagen, widely regarded as the world’s first automobile

    Publicat: 29.01.2025
  7. 28th January 1393: Charles VI of France and the Bal des Ardents

    Publicat: 28.01.2025
  8. 27th January 1967: The Outer Space Treaty that is the basis for all space laws opened for signatures

    Publicat: 27.01.2025
  9. 26th January 1998: US President Bill Clinton tells a White House press conference he “did not have sexual relations” with Monica Lewinsky

    Publicat: 26.01.2025
  10. 25th January 1947: Patent filed for the first interactive electronic game

    Publicat: 25.01.2025
  11. 24th January 41: Caligula is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard

    Publicat: 24.01.2025
  12. 23rd January 1795: French cavalry capture 14 Dutch warships at Den Helder during the War of the First Coalition

    Publicat: 23.01.2025
  13. 22nd January 1506: Pope Julius II formally establishes the Pontifical Swiss Guard as the personal bodyguard of the Pope and the Vatican

    Publicat: 22.01.2025
  14. 21st January 1908: Sullivan’s Ordinance in New York prohibits women from smoking in public places

    Publicat: 21.01.2025
  15. 20th January 1949: Shirley Temple given a tear gas fountain pen by J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI, during the inauguration of Harry Truman

    Publicat: 20.01.2025
  16. 19th January 1883: World’s first electric lighting system using overhead wires activated in Roselle, New Jersey

    Publicat: 19.01.2025
  17. 18th January 1871: Wilhelm I of Prussia proclaimed the first German Emperor

    Publicat: 18.01.2025
  18. 17th January 1944: Allies launch the Battle of Monte Cassino during the Second World War

    Publicat: 17.01.2025
  19. 16th January 1547: Ivan the Terrible formally crowned as the first Tsar of Russia

    Publicat: 16.01.2025
  20. 15th January 1919: Great Molasses Flood kills 21 people in Boston

    Publicat: 15.01.2025

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