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5th January 1953: Samuel Beckett’s play En Attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot) premieres at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris

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Beckett originally wrote the play in French, despite being fluent in English, as he believed the language allowed for greater simplicity and precision. It has since became one of the most studied and performed plays of the 20th ...De către Scott Allsop

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4th January 1847: Samuel Colt receives the first government order for his firearms

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American inventor Samuel Colt received the first government order for his revolver firearms from Captain Samuel Walker of the Texas ...De către Scott Allsop

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3rd January 1870: Construction begins on the Brooklyn Bridge

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Although numerous suspension bridges had been built prior to the Brooklyn Bridge, nothing came close to the almost 1,600 foot span across the East River from Brooklyn to ...De către Scott Allsop

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2nd January 1981: Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, better known as the Yorkshire Ripper, arrested by police

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Sutcliffe was found guilty of murdering 13 women over a six-year period, and of attempting to murder a further ...De către Scott Allsop

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1st January 1772: First traveller’s cheques, known as “circular notes”, put on sale

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The first traveller’s cheques, in the form of a ‘circular note’ issued by a bank, went on sale in ...De către Scott Allsop

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31st December 1935: Monopoly board game patented by Charles Darrow although it wasn’t his idea

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Although the patent for the game was awarded to Darrow, it is now widely recognised that he was just one of many people who developed the complex design and rules that we now know as ...De către Scott Allsop

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30th December 1993: Israel and the Vatican City begin diplomatic relations

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Relations between Catholicism and Judaism cover a long, complex and violent history in which Christians revered the Jewish scriptures yet held Jews collectively responsible for the crucifixion of ...De către Scott Allsop

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29th December 1170: Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered in front of the altar of Canterbury Cathedral

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The murder of Thomas Becket was recorded in a later history by the monk Edward Grim who claimed that the fatal blow split Becket’s skull as he knelt in front of the ...De către Scott Allsop

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28th December 1918: Constance Markievicz becomes the first woman to be elected to the Parliament of the UK

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Markievicz stood as a Sinn Féin candidate and secured over 63% of the vote in the constituency of Dublin St Patrick’s, but refused to take the oath of allegiance to the British crown and consequently did not take her seat in the House of ...De către Scott Allsop

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27th December 1922: Hōshō, the world’s first purpose-built aircraft carrier, commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy

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While other nations had converted ships into carriers the Japanese ship, named Hōshō, was the first to be designed and constructed as an aircraft carrier from the ...De către Scott Allsop

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26th December 1973: Horror film The Exorcist first released in cinemas

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The Exorcist is one of the highest-grossing films of all time, but originally opened in just twenty-six American ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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After Edward the Confessor and Harold Godwinson, William became the third person to wear the crown of England that ...De către Scott Allsop

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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 ...De către Scott Allsop

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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

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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 ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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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 ...De către Scott Allsop

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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 ...De către Scott Allsop

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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 ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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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 ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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French aristocrat Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the world’s first officially recognised land speed ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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Orville piloted the first flight, which lasted for just 12 seconds over a total distance of only 36.5 ...De către Scott Allsop

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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 ...De către Scott Allsop

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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 ...De către Scott Allsop

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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 ...De către Scott Allsop

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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

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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 ...De către Scott Allsop

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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 ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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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 ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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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 ...De către Scott Allsop

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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 ...De către Scott Allsop

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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 ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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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 ...De către Scott Allsop

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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 ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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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 ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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Mary Celeste had departed New York on 7 ...De către Scott Allsop

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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

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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 ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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United States Senator Joseph McCarthy was censured for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonour and ...De către Scott Allsop

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1st December 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after the white section of the bus became full

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This simple act of defiance led to her quickly becoming a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement, and sparked the Montgomery Bus ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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On 30 November 1786 Leopold formally abolished the death sentence as well as banning the use of ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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By the end of 1972, Atari had produced around 2,500 PONG machines, which were distributed across the United States and sparked the growth of the arcade game ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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The secret conference took place in Tehran, Iran, with the primary purpose of discussing the opening of a second front in Western Europe during the Second World ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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Organized by the department store R.H. Macy & Co., the inaugural event was called the “Macy’s Christmas Parade” and was intended to be a way for Macy’s to attract customers and kick off the holiday shopping ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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Built to carry the Llangollen Canal across the River Dee, which provided a direct waterway link between the industrial towns of Shropshire and the Welsh coalfields, the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is one of the most remarkable engineering achievements of the Industrial ...De către Scott Allsop

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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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Christie stipulated that The Mousetrap should not be adapted into other formats, helping to maintain its appeal as a unique theatrical experience. It holds the world record for the longest continuous run of any play, with more than 29,000 ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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Improved fencing systems were vital to the farmers who had headed west to settle in the Great ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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An Unearthly Child was the first of a four-part serial that saw actor William Hartnell take the role of the time-travelling Doctor ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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The British pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was killed during a battle with British sailors under the command of Lieutenant Robert ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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Within two decades, Edison's invention of the phonograph had spawned an entire industry built around the recording, distribution and sale of sound ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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The Occupation of Alcatraz was launched by a group of 89 members of the Indians of All Tribes in an attempt to gain control under the Treaty of Fort Laramie that had been signed in ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time at the Geneva ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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Railroad companies found it difficult to coordinate train schedules and prevent accidents as trains crossed different regions with varied local times, so adopted a solution to divide the country into four distinct time zones: Eastern, Central, Mountain, and ...De către Scott Allsop

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

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During Holmes’ time in Chicago, he owned a multi-story building that later became known as the “Murder Castle” thanks to sensationalist newspaper reports from the ...De către Scott Allsop

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