554 Episodio

  1. 29th December 1890: Lakota Sioux massacred at Wounded Knee

    Pubblicato: 29/12/2025

  2. 28th December 1537: Francis I of France establishes the first legal deposit for books under the Ordonnance de Montpellier

    Pubblicato: 28/12/2025

  3. 27th December 1929: Stalin calls for the ‘liquidation of the kulaks as a class’

    Pubblicato: 27/12/2025

  4. 26th December 1991: Soviet Union dissolved in the final meeting of the Supreme Soviet

    Pubblicato: 26/12/2025

  5. 25th December 800: Charlemagne crowned emperor by Pope Leo III during Christmas Mass at St Peter’s Basilica

    Pubblicato: 25/12/2025

  6. 24th December 1955: Colorado Springs Continental Air Defense Command first gives children the location Santa as he delivers presents

    Pubblicato: 24/12/2025

  7. 23rd December 1750: Ben Franklin accidentally shocks himself while trying to electrocute a turkey

    Pubblicato: 23/12/2025

  8. 22nd December 1964: Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird strategic reconnaissance aircraft makes its first flight

    Pubblicato: 22/12/2025

  9. 21st December 1913: First modern crossword puzzle printed in the New York World newspaper, created by Arthur Wynne

    Pubblicato: 21/12/2025

  10. 20th December 1917: Establishment of the Cheka, the Russian Bolshevik secret police

    Pubblicato: 20/12/2025

  11. 19th December 1777: George Washington leads the Continental Army into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

    Pubblicato: 19/12/2025

  12. 18th December 1892: Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker receives its première performance at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg

    Pubblicato: 18/12/2025

  13. 17th December 497 BCE: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome

    Pubblicato: 17/12/2025

  14. 16th December 1431: Henry VI became the only English monarch to be crowned King of France

    Pubblicato: 16/12/2025

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

    Pubblicato: 15/12/2025

  16. 14th December 1911: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen becomes the first to reach the South Pole

    Pubblicato: 14/12/2025

  17. 13th December 1577: Francis Drake departs Plymouth on his circumnavigation of the globe

    Pubblicato: 13/12/2025

  18. 12th December 1935: The Lebensborn registered association established in Nazi Germany by the SS

    Pubblicato: 12/12/2025

  19. 11th December 1936: King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom announces his abdication in a worldwide radio broadcast

    Pubblicato: 11/12/2025

  20. 10th December 1948: Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris

    Pubblicato: 10/12/2025

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