563 Epizód

  1. 7th January 1979: Pol Pot of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (Cambodia) overthrown when Vietnamese forces capture the capital city Phnom Penh

    Közzétéve: 2026. 01. 07.

  2. 6th January 1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt sets out the “Four Freedoms” in his State of the Union address

    Közzétéve: 2026. 01. 06.

  3. 5th January 1968: The Prague Spring begins with Alexander Dubček becoming the new leader of Czechoslovakia

    Közzétéve: 2026. 01. 05.

  4. 4th January 1642: Charles I of England attempts to arrest the Five Members of Parliament, prompting the English Civil War

    Közzétéve: 2026. 01. 04.

  5. 3rd January 1868: Meiji Restoration begins in Japan when loyalists seize control of the Kyoto Imperial Palace

    Közzétéve: 2026. 01. 03.

  6. 2nd January 1980: Jimmy Carter instigates the end of détente after the USSR invades Afghanistan

    Közzétéve: 2026. 01. 02.

  7. 1st January 1942: Declaration by the United Nations agreed and signed by the four major Allied nations during the Second World War

    Közzétéve: 2026. 01. 01.

  8. 31st December 1853: New Year’s Eve dinner takes place inside a model of an Iguanodon at the Crystal Palace Park in south London

    Közzétéve: 2025. 12. 31.

  9. 30th December 1922: Foundation of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

    Közzétéve: 2025. 12. 30.

  10. 29th December 1890: Lakota Sioux massacred at Wounded Knee

    Közzétéve: 2025. 12. 29.

  11. 28th December 1537: Francis I of France establishes the first legal deposit for books under the Ordonnance de Montpellier

    Közzétéve: 2025. 12. 28.

  12. 27th December 1929: Stalin calls for the ‘liquidation of the kulaks as a class’

    Közzétéve: 2025. 12. 27.

  13. 26th December 1991: Soviet Union dissolved in the final meeting of the Supreme Soviet

    Közzétéve: 2025. 12. 26.

  14. 25th December 800: Charlemagne crowned emperor by Pope Leo III during Christmas Mass at St Peter’s Basilica

    Közzétéve: 2025. 12. 25.

  15. 24th December 1955: Colorado Springs Continental Air Defense Command first gives children the location Santa as he delivers presents

    Közzétéve: 2025. 12. 24.

  16. 23rd December 1750: Ben Franklin accidentally shocks himself while trying to electrocute a turkey

    Közzétéve: 2025. 12. 23.

  17. 22nd December 1964: Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird strategic reconnaissance aircraft makes its first flight

    Közzétéve: 2025. 12. 22.

  18. 21st December 1913: First modern crossword puzzle printed in the New York World newspaper, created by Arthur Wynne

    Közzétéve: 2025. 12. 21.

  19. 20th December 1917: Establishment of the Cheka, the Russian Bolshevik secret police

    Közzétéve: 2025. 12. 20.

  20. 19th December 1777: George Washington leads the Continental Army into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

    Közzétéve: 2025. 12. 19.

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