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1. 19th December 1487: Largest recorded human sacrifices in Mesoamerican history at the Sixth Great Temple of Tenochtitlan

   Gepubliceerd: 19-12-2024
2. 18th December 1898: The world’s first officially recognised land speed record is set

   Gepubliceerd: 18-12-2024
3. 17th December 1903: Wright brothers make the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight

   Gepubliceerd: 17-12-2024
4. 16th December 1773: The Boston Tea Party throws a shipment of tea into Boston Harbor

   Gepubliceerd: 16-12-2024
5. 15th December 1933: The Twenty-first Amendment to the US Constitution repeals prohibition

   Gepubliceerd: 15-12-2024
6. 14th December 1287: St Lucia’s Flood kills over 50,000 people around the North Sea

   Gepubliceerd: 14-12-2024
7. 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

   Gepubliceerd: 13-12-2024
8. 12th December 1963: Kenya gains independence from the United Kingdom

   Gepubliceerd: 12-12-2024
9. 11th December 1866: The first transatlantic yacht race begins in Sandy Hook, New Jersey

   Gepubliceerd: 11-12-2024
10. 10th December 1799: France adopts the metric system for weights and measures

    Gepubliceerd: 10-12-2024
11. 9th December 1965: A Charlie Brown Christmas first broadcast by American television network CBS

    Gepubliceerd: 9-12-2024
12. 8th December 1660: The first woman appears on a professional stage in England in Othello

    Gepubliceerd: 8-12-2024
13. 7th December 1941: The Imperial Japanese Navy attack the United States’ Hawaiian naval base at Pearl Harbor

    Gepubliceerd: 7-12-2024
14. 6th December 1969: Meredith Hunter killed at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival

    Gepubliceerd: 6-12-2024
15. 5th December 1955: Montgomery bus boycott begins in Alabama, marking a pivotal moment in the American Civil Rights Movement

    Gepubliceerd: 5-12-2024
16. 4th December 1872: Deserted US merchant ship Mary Celeste found drifting in the Atlantic

    Gepubliceerd: 4-12-2024
17. 3rd December 1973: NASA’s Pioneer 10 becomes the first space probe to send close-up images of the planet Jupiter

    Gepubliceerd: 3-12-2024
18. 2nd December 1954: US Senator Joseph McCarthy censured by the Senate

    Gepubliceerd: 2-12-2024
19. 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

    Gepubliceerd: 1-12-2024
20. 30th November 1786: Tuscany becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty

    Gepubliceerd: 30-11-2024