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1. 30th November 1786: Tuscany becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty

   Gepubliceerd: 30-11-2024
2. 29th November 1972: Pong is officially released by Atari, and soon becomes the first commercially successful video game

   Gepubliceerd: 29-11-2024
3. 28th November 1943: The Tehran Conference begins, marking the first meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin

   Gepubliceerd: 28-11-2024
4. 27th November 1924: First Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade takes place in New York City

   Gepubliceerd: 27-11-2024
5. 26th November 1805: The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the highest canal aqueduct in the world, opens in North Wales

   Gepubliceerd: 26-11-2024
6. 25th November 1952: Agatha Christie’s play The Mousetrap opens in London, later to become the longest-running play in the world

   Gepubliceerd: 25-11-2024
7. 24th November 1873: Joseph Glidden awarded a patent for modern barbed wire

   Gepubliceerd: 24-11-2024
8. 23rd November 1963: First ever episode of Doctor Who broadcast by on BBC television

   Gepubliceerd: 23-11-2024
9. 22nd November 1718: The pirate Blackbeard killed by sailors under Robert Maynard

   Gepubliceerd: 22-11-2024
10. 21st November 1877: Thomas Edison announced his phonograph, the world’s first practical machine that could record and play sound

    Gepubliceerd: 21-11-2024
11. 20th November 1969: Native Americans begin their occupation of Alcatraz Island

    Gepubliceerd: 20-11-2024
12. 19th November 1985: Reagan and Gorbachev meet for the first time at the Geneva Summit

    Gepubliceerd: 19-11-2024
13. 18th November 1883: The Day of Two Noons sees four standard time zones applied across the continental United States

    Gepubliceerd: 18-11-2024
14. 17th November 1894: H. H. Holmes, one of America’s earliest serial killers, apprehended in Boston

    Gepubliceerd: 17-11-2024
15. 16th November 1793: Mass drownings begin in Nantes as part of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution

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

    Gepubliceerd: 15-11-2024
17. 14th November 1960: Ruby Bridges, first African-American to desegregate an elementary school

    Gepubliceerd: 14-11-2024
18. 13th November 1956: Supreme Court upholds Browder v Gayle to desegregate buses in Alabama

    Gepubliceerd: 13-11-2024
19. 12th November 1933: German referendum on withdrawing from the League of Nations

    Gepubliceerd: 12-11-2024
20. 11th November 1865: Dr Mary Walker becomes the first (and only) woman to receive the Medal of Honor

    Gepubliceerd: 11-11-2024