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

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

   Opublikowany: 29.11.2024
3. 28th November 1943: The Tehran Conference begins, marking the first meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin

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4. 27th November 1924: First Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade takes place in New York City

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

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

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7. 24th November 1873: Joseph Glidden awarded a patent for modern barbed wire

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8. 23rd November 1963: First ever episode of Doctor Who broadcast by on BBC television

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9. 22nd November 1718: The pirate Blackbeard killed by sailors under Robert Maynard

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

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11. 20th November 1969: Native Americans begin their occupation of Alcatraz Island

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12. 19th November 1985: Reagan and Gorbachev meet for the first time at the Geneva Summit

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

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

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

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

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

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18. 13th November 1956: Supreme Court upholds Browder v Gayle to desegregate buses in Alabama

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19. 12th November 1933: German referendum on withdrawing from the League of Nations

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

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