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382 Episodio

1. 2nd December 1954: US Senator Joseph McCarthy censured by the Senate

   Pubblicato: 02/12/2024
2. 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

   Pubblicato: 01/12/2024
3. 30th November 1786: Tuscany becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty

   Pubblicato: 30/11/2024
4. 29th November 1972: Pong is officially released by Atari, and soon becomes the first commercially successful video game

   Pubblicato: 29/11/2024
5. 28th November 1943: The Tehran Conference begins, marking the first meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin

   Pubblicato: 28/11/2024
6. 27th November 1924: First Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade takes place in New York City

   Pubblicato: 27/11/2024
7. 26th November 1805: The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the highest canal aqueduct in the world, opens in North Wales

   Pubblicato: 26/11/2024
8. 25th November 1952: Agatha Christie’s play The Mousetrap opens in London, later to become the longest-running play in the world

   Pubblicato: 25/11/2024
9. 24th November 1873: Joseph Glidden awarded a patent for modern barbed wire

   Pubblicato: 24/11/2024
10. 23rd November 1963: First ever episode of Doctor Who broadcast by on BBC television

    Pubblicato: 23/11/2024
11. 22nd November 1718: The pirate Blackbeard killed by sailors under Robert Maynard

    Pubblicato: 22/11/2024
12. 21st November 1877: Thomas Edison announced his phonograph, the world’s first practical machine that could record and play sound

    Pubblicato: 21/11/2024
13. 20th November 1969: Native Americans begin their occupation of Alcatraz Island

    Pubblicato: 20/11/2024
14. 19th November 1985: Reagan and Gorbachev meet for the first time at the Geneva Summit

    Pubblicato: 19/11/2024
15. 18th November 1883: The Day of Two Noons sees four standard time zones applied across the continental United States

    Pubblicato: 18/11/2024
16. 17th November 1894: H. H. Holmes, one of America’s earliest serial killers, apprehended in Boston

    Pubblicato: 17/11/2024
17. 16th November 1793: Mass drownings begin in Nantes as part of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution

    Pubblicato: 16/11/2024
18. 15th November 1917: Georges Clemenceau appointed Prime Minister of France for the second time

    Pubblicato: 15/11/2024
19. 14th November 1960: Ruby Bridges, first African-American to desegregate an elementary school

    Pubblicato: 14/11/2024
20. 13th November 1956: Supreme Court upholds Browder v Gayle to desegregate buses in Alabama

    Pubblicato: 13/11/2024