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  1. 19th December 1777: George Washington leads the Continental Army into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

    Publicerades: 2025-12-19

  2. 18th December 1892: Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker receives its première performance at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg

    Publicerades: 2025-12-18

  3. 17th December 497 BCE: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome

    Publicerades: 2025-12-17

  4. 16th December 1431: Henry VI became the only English monarch to be crowned King of France

    Publicerades: 2025-12-16

  5. 15th December 1851: The Forest Creek Monster Meeting of Australian gold miners protests taxes

    Publicerades: 2025-12-15

  6. 14th December 1911: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen becomes the first to reach the South Pole

    Publicerades: 2025-12-14

  7. 13th December 1577: Francis Drake departs Plymouth on his circumnavigation of the globe

    Publicerades: 2025-12-13

  8. 12th December 1935: The Lebensborn registered association established in Nazi Germany by the SS

    Publicerades: 2025-12-12

  9. 11th December 1936: King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom announces his abdication in a worldwide radio broadcast

    Publicerades: 2025-12-11

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

    Publicerades: 2025-12-10

  11. 9th December 1921: Lead identified as a fuel additive to reduce engine knocking in automobiles

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  12. 8th December 1980: John Lennon murdered outside his New York apartment block by Mark David Chapman

    Publicerades: 2025-12-08

  13. 7th December 1995: NASA’s Galileo spacecraft becomes the first to enter orbit around Jupiter

    Publicerades: 2025-12-07

  14. 6th December 1956: The ‘Blood in the Water’ Olympic water polo match between the USSR and Hungary

    Publicerades: 2025-12-06

  15. 5th December 1934: The Walwal Incident lays the foundations for the Abyssinia Crisis

    Publicerades: 2025-12-05

  16. 4th December 1676: Battle of Lund fought between Denmark–Norway and Sweden, one of the bloodiest battles in Scandinavia

    Publicerades: 2025-12-04

  17. 3rd December 1910: The world’s first neon light was turned on for the public at the Paris Motor Show

    Publicerades: 2025-12-03

  18. 2nd December 1804: Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

    Publicerades: 2025-12-02

  19. 1st December 1934: Assassination of Sergei Kirov, one of the most prominent figures in the Soviet Communist Party

    Publicerades: 2025-12-01

  20. 30th November 1982: Michael Jackson releases Thriller, the best-selling album of all time

    Publicerades: 2025-11-30

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