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21st December 1620: The first Mayflower Pilgrims land at Plymouth
21 dec· HistoryPod
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
20 dec· HistoryPod
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 dec· 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 dec· 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 dec· 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
16 dec· HistoryPod
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
15 dec· HistoryPod
The Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment which had made the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol ...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
14 dec· HistoryPod
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 dec· 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
12 dec· HistoryPod
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 dec· 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 dec· 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
9 dec· HistoryPod
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
8 dec· HistoryPod
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 dec· 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
6 dec· HistoryPod
Meredith Hunter was killed at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival during a performance by the Rolling ...
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5th December 1955: Montgomery bus boycott begins in Alabama, marking a pivotal moment in the American Civil Rights Movement
5 dec· HistoryPod
The boycott lasted for 381 days and called for African Americans in Montgomery to refrain from using the city’s buses, which were segregated, until fair treatment was ...
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4th December 1872: Deserted US merchant ship Mary Celeste found drifting in the Atlantic
4 dec· HistoryPod
Mary Celeste had departed New York on 7 ...
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3rd December 1973: NASA’s Pioneer 10 becomes the first space probe to send close-up images of the planet Jupiter
3 dec· HistoryPod
Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft designed to explore beyond the inner planets and, after a 21-month journey, was approaching Jupiter when it began transmitting data and images as it passed within 132,000 kilometres (82,000 miles) of the planet’s cloud ...
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2nd December 1954: US Senator Joseph McCarthy censured by the Senate
2 dec· HistoryPod
United States Senator Joseph McCarthy was censured for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonour and ...
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Afleveringen

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

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

5th December 1955: Montgomery bus boycott begins in Alabama, marking a pivotal moment in the American Civil Rights Movement

4th December 1872: Deserted US merchant ship Mary Celeste found drifting in the Atlantic

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

2nd December 1954: US Senator Joseph McCarthy censured by the Senate