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  1. 24th December 1955: Colorado Springs Continental Air Defense Command first gives children the location Santa as he delivers presents

    Opublikowany: 24.12.2025

  2. 23rd December 1750: Ben Franklin accidentally shocks himself while trying to electrocute a turkey

    Opublikowany: 23.12.2025

  3. 22nd December 1964: Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird strategic reconnaissance aircraft makes its first flight

    Opublikowany: 22.12.2025

  4. 21st December 1913: First modern crossword puzzle printed in the New York World newspaper, created by Arthur Wynne

    Opublikowany: 21.12.2025

  5. 20th December 1917: Establishment of the Cheka, the Russian Bolshevik secret police

    Opublikowany: 20.12.2025

  6. 19th December 1777: George Washington leads the Continental Army into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

    Opublikowany: 19.12.2025

  7. 18th December 1892: Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker receives its première performance at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg

    Opublikowany: 18.12.2025

  8. 17th December 497 BCE: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome

    Opublikowany: 17.12.2025

  9. 16th December 1431: Henry VI became the only English monarch to be crowned King of France

    Opublikowany: 16.12.2025

  10. 15th December 1851: The Forest Creek Monster Meeting of Australian gold miners protests taxes

    Opublikowany: 15.12.2025

  11. 14th December 1911: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen becomes the first to reach the South Pole

    Opublikowany: 14.12.2025

  12. 13th December 1577: Francis Drake departs Plymouth on his circumnavigation of the globe

    Opublikowany: 13.12.2025

  13. 12th December 1935: The Lebensborn registered association established in Nazi Germany by the SS

    Opublikowany: 12.12.2025

  14. 11th December 1936: King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom announces his abdication in a worldwide radio broadcast

    Opublikowany: 11.12.2025

  15. 10th December 1948: Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris

    Opublikowany: 10.12.2025

  16. 9th December 1921: Lead identified as a fuel additive to reduce engine knocking in automobiles

    Opublikowany: 9.12.2025

  17. 8th December 1980: John Lennon murdered outside his New York apartment block by Mark David Chapman

    Opublikowany: 8.12.2025

  18. 7th December 1995: NASA’s Galileo spacecraft becomes the first to enter orbit around Jupiter

    Opublikowany: 7.12.2025

  19. 6th December 1956: The ‘Blood in the Water’ Olympic water polo match between the USSR and Hungary

    Opublikowany: 6.12.2025

  20. 5th December 1934: The Walwal Incident lays the foundations for the Abyssinia Crisis

    Opublikowany: 5.12.2025

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