382 Episodio

  1. 22nd December 1971: Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) officially established in Paris, France

    Pubblicato: 22/12/2024
  2. 21st December 1620: The first Mayflower Pilgrims land at Plymouth

    Pubblicato: 21/12/2024
  3. 20th December 1951: EBR-I in Idaho becomes the first nuclear reactor to generate usable electricity

    Pubblicato: 20/12/2024
  4. 19th December 1487: Largest recorded human sacrifices in Mesoamerican history at the Sixth Great Temple of Tenochtitlan

    Pubblicato: 19/12/2024
  5. 18th December 1898: The world’s first officially recognised land speed record is set

    Pubblicato: 18/12/2024
  6. 17th December 1903: Wright brothers make the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight

    Pubblicato: 17/12/2024
  7. 16th December 1773: The Boston Tea Party throws a shipment of tea into Boston Harbor

    Pubblicato: 16/12/2024
  8. 15th December 1933: The Twenty-first Amendment to the US Constitution repeals prohibition

    Pubblicato: 15/12/2024
  9. 14th December 1287: St Lucia’s Flood kills over 50,000 people around the North Sea

    Pubblicato: 14/12/2024
  10. 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

    Pubblicato: 13/12/2024
  11. 12th December 1963: Kenya gains independence from the United Kingdom

    Pubblicato: 12/12/2024
  12. 11th December 1866: The first transatlantic yacht race begins in Sandy Hook, New Jersey

    Pubblicato: 11/12/2024
  13. 10th December 1799: France adopts the metric system for weights and measures

    Pubblicato: 10/12/2024
  14. 9th December 1965: A Charlie Brown Christmas first broadcast by American television network CBS

    Pubblicato: 09/12/2024
  15. 8th December 1660: The first woman appears on a professional stage in England in Othello

    Pubblicato: 08/12/2024
  16. 7th December 1941: The Imperial Japanese Navy attack the United States’ Hawaiian naval base at Pearl Harbor

    Pubblicato: 07/12/2024
  17. 6th December 1969: Meredith Hunter killed at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival

    Pubblicato: 06/12/2024
  18. 5th December 1955: Montgomery bus boycott begins in Alabama, marking a pivotal moment in the American Civil Rights Movement

    Pubblicato: 05/12/2024
  19. 4th December 1872: Deserted US merchant ship Mary Celeste found drifting in the Atlantic

    Pubblicato: 04/12/2024
  20. 3rd December 1973: NASA’s Pioneer 10 becomes the first space probe to send close-up images of the planet Jupiter

    Pubblicato: 03/12/2024

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