540 Afleveringen

  1. 15th December 1851: The Forest Creek Monster Meeting of Australian gold miners protests taxes

    Gepubliceerd: 15-12-2025

  2. 14th December 1911: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen becomes the first to reach the South Pole

    Gepubliceerd: 14-12-2025

  3. 13th December 1577: Francis Drake departs Plymouth on his circumnavigation of the globe

    Gepubliceerd: 13-12-2025

  4. 12th December 1935: The Lebensborn registered association established in Nazi Germany by the SS

    Gepubliceerd: 12-12-2025

  5. 11th December 1936: King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom announces his abdication in a worldwide radio broadcast

    Gepubliceerd: 11-12-2025

  6. 10th December 1948: Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris

    Gepubliceerd: 10-12-2025

  7. 9th December 1921: Lead identified as a fuel additive to reduce engine knocking in automobiles

    Gepubliceerd: 9-12-2025

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

    Gepubliceerd: 8-12-2025

  9. 7th December 1995: NASA’s Galileo spacecraft becomes the first to enter orbit around Jupiter

    Gepubliceerd: 7-12-2025

  10. 6th December 1956: The ‘Blood in the Water’ Olympic water polo match between the USSR and Hungary

    Gepubliceerd: 6-12-2025

  11. 5th December 1934: The Walwal Incident lays the foundations for the Abyssinia Crisis

    Gepubliceerd: 5-12-2025

  12. 4th December 1676: Battle of Lund fought between Denmark–Norway and Sweden, one of the bloodiest battles in Scandinavia

    Gepubliceerd: 4-12-2025

  13. 3rd December 1910: The world’s first neon light was turned on for the public at the Paris Motor Show

    Gepubliceerd: 3-12-2025

  14. 2nd December 1804: Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

    Gepubliceerd: 2-12-2025

  15. 1st December 1934: Assassination of Sergei Kirov, one of the most prominent figures in the Soviet Communist Party

    Gepubliceerd: 1-12-2025

  16. 30th November 1982: Michael Jackson releases Thriller, the best-selling album of all time

    Gepubliceerd: 30-11-2025

  17. 29th November 1850: The Declaration of Olmütz signed by Prussia and Austria

    Gepubliceerd: 29-11-2025

  18. 28th November 1660: The Royal Society founded at Gresham College in London by a group of notable natural philosophers

    Gepubliceerd: 28-11-2025

  19. 27th November 1809: The Berners Street hoax causes chaos in central London

    Gepubliceerd: 27-11-2025

  20. 26th November 1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon enter the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings

    Gepubliceerd: 26-11-2025

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