21st December 1620: The first Mayflower Pilgrims land at Plymouth

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25th December 1066: William of Normandy, known as William the Conqueror, crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey
25 dez· HistoryPod
After Edward the Confessor and Harold Godwinson, William became the third person to wear the crown of England that ...
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24th December 1826: The Eggnog Riot broke out at West Point Military Academy, New York
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Cadets sought to continue the annual tradition of drinking homemade eggnog on Christmas ...
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23rd December 1823: The poem A Visit from St Nicholas, better known as The Night Before Christmas, published anonymously in the Troy Sentinel
23 dez· HistoryPod
The poem is significant for being the first source to give the names of Santa’s reindeer, as well as establishing the image of the jolly fat Santa that we know ...
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22nd December 1971: Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) officially established in Paris, France
22 dez· HistoryPod
One of the organization’s first missions was in Nicaragua following the devastating 1972 earthquake. Since then, MSF has expanded its operations worldwide, responding to emergencies such as the Rwandan Genocide, the Ebola outbreaks in West Africa, and refugee ...
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21st December 1620: The first Mayflower Pilgrims land at Plymouth
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The first of the Mayflower Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the Plymouth ...
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20th December 1951: EBR-I in Idaho becomes the first nuclear reactor to generate usable electricity
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Having begun power operation at the end of August 1951, on December 20 Atomic Energy Program scientists at the EBR-I successfully used the reactor to produce enough electricity to power four 200 watt light ...
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19th December 1487: Largest recorded human sacrifices in Mesoamerican history at the Sixth Great Temple of Tenochtitlan
19 dez· HistoryPod
Historical accounts, particularly from post-conquest sources, describe the central importance of a mass sacrifice involving around 4,000 prisoners of war in which the victims’ abdomens were cut open and their hearts ...
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18th December 1898: The world’s first officially recognised land speed record is set
18 dez· HistoryPod
French aristocrat Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the world’s first officially recognised land speed ...
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17th December 1903: Wright brothers make the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight
17 dez· HistoryPod
Orville piloted the first flight, which lasted for just 12 seconds over a total distance of only 36.5 ...
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16th December 1773: The Boston Tea Party throws a shipment of tea into Boston Harbor
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The British government had passed the Tea Act seven months earlier on 10 May, partly in an attempt to support the struggling East India ...
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15th December 1933: The Twenty-first Amendment to the US Constitution repeals prohibition
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The Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment which had made the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol ...
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14th December 1287: St Lucia’s Flood kills over 50,000 people around the North Sea
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In the medieval period the Netherlands, whose name literally means ‘lower countries’, consisted of large areas of boggy land around the winding estuaries of three of the largest rivers in ...
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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
13 dez· HistoryPod
Although the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee inflicted significant damage on the British HMS Exeter, the combined efforts of three British cruisers successfully crippled the Graf Spee’s fuel system and she was later ...
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12th December 1963: Kenya gains independence from the United Kingdom
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Kenya had been under British rule since the 19th Century, and since becoming a colony in 1920 African demands for a greater role in politics had ...
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11th December 1866: The first transatlantic yacht race begins in Sandy Hook, New Jersey
11 dez· HistoryPod
The first transatlantic yacht race, from Sandy Hook in New Jersey to the Needles off the coast of the Isle of Wight in England, was the result of a drunken wager between three prominent New York businessmen: James Gordon Bennett Jr., Pierre Lorillard, and George ...
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10th December 1799: France adopts the metric system for weights and measures
10 dez· HistoryPod
It is estimated that up to a quarter of a million different units of measurement were in use throughout France at eve of the Revolution in 1789, and that these differed not only from trade to trade but also from town to ...
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9th December 1965: A Charlie Brown Christmas first broadcast by American television network CBS
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A Charlie Brown Christmas went on to win both a Peabody Award and the Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's ...
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8th December 1660: The first woman appears on a professional stage in England in Othello
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Theatre in England had been banned by the Puritan Long Parliament in 1642 but, following the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, the ban was ...
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7th December 1941: The Imperial Japanese Navy attack the United States’ Hawaiian naval base at Pearl Harbor
7 dez· HistoryPod
The following morning, President Franklin D. Roosevelt described the day of the attack on PEarl Harbor as ‘a date which will live in infamy’ and called for Congress to declare war on the Empire of ...
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6th December 1969: Meredith Hunter killed at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival
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Meredith Hunter was killed at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival during a performance by the Rolling ...
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Episódios

25th December 1066: William of Normandy, known as William the Conqueror, crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey

24th December 1826: The Eggnog Riot broke out at West Point Military Academy, New York

23rd December 1823: The poem A Visit from St Nicholas, better known as The Night Before Christmas, published anonymously in the Troy Sentinel

22nd December 1971: Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) officially established in Paris, France

20th December 1951: EBR-I in Idaho becomes the first nuclear reactor to generate usable electricity

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

18th December 1898: The world’s first officially recognised land speed record is set

17th December 1903: Wright brothers make the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight

16th December 1773: The Boston Tea Party throws a shipment of tea into Boston Harbor

15th December 1933: The Twenty-first Amendment to the US Constitution repeals prohibition

14th December 1287: St Lucia’s Flood kills over 50,000 people around the North Sea

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

12th December 1963: Kenya gains independence from the United Kingdom

11th December 1866: The first transatlantic yacht race begins in Sandy Hook, New Jersey

10th December 1799: France adopts the metric system for weights and measures

9th December 1965: A Charlie Brown Christmas first broadcast by American television network CBS

8th December 1660: The first woman appears on a professional stage in England in Othello

7th December 1941: The Imperial Japanese Navy attack the United States’ Hawaiian naval base at Pearl Harbor

6th December 1969: Meredith Hunter killed at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival