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19th January 1883: World’s first electric lighting system using overhead wires activated in Roselle, New Jersey

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Designed by Thomas Edison and his team, the system included a central steam-powered generator that supplied electricity to a store and the railroad station, alongside 40 houses and 150 ...Por Scott Allsop

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18th January 1871: Wilhelm I of Prussia proclaimed the first German Emperor

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Wilhelm was formally declared the German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles on 18 ...Por Scott Allsop

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17th January 1944: Allies launch the Battle of Monte Cassino during the Second World War

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The Battle of Monte Cassino began when Allied forces launched the first of four attacks against the Gustav Line in ...Por Scott Allsop

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16th January 1547: Ivan the Terrible formally crowned as the first Tsar of Russia

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The coronation ceremony was an elaborate event designed to emphasize Ivan’s authority and the sanctity of his rule, and he followed it by pursuing a series of reforms and expansionist policies aimed at consolidating his power and strengthening the ...Por Scott Allsop

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15th January 1919: Great Molasses Flood kills 21 people in Boston

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21 people were killed and a further 150 were injured after 2.3 million gallons of molasses swept through North End in Boston, Massachusetts after a storage tank ...Por Scott Allsop

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14th January 1973: Elvis Presley makes the first solo headline satellite broadcast in Aloha From Hawaii

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Elvis Presley became the first solo entertainer to broadcast a live performance via satellite with Aloha From ...Por Scott Allsop

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13th January 532: The Nika riots begin in Constantinople during the reign of Emperor Justinian I

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The riots spread throughout Constantinople and buildings, including the Hagia Sophia and parts of the imperial palace, were set on fire. Much of the city was left in ...Por Scott Allsop

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12th January 1967: Dr James Bedford becomes the first cryonically preserved human

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Dr James Hiram Bedford became the first human to be cryonically ...Por Scott Allsop

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11th January 1879: Anglo-Zulu War begins when British troops cross the Tugela River into Zululand

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The British plan involved a three-pronged advance into Zululand, with the main column, led by Lord Chelmsford, heading toward the Zulu capital at ...Por Scott Allsop

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10th January 1927: Fritz Lang’s pioneering science fiction film Metropolis premieres in Berlin

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Metropolis later gained recognition as a masterpiece of early cinema with Its iconic imagery influencing countless films and works of science ...Por Scott Allsop

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9th January 1916: Gallipoli campaign ends with an Ottoman victory following the final withdrawal of Allied forces

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Troops were first withdrawn from the Suvla Bay and Anzac Cove areas in December 1915. The final phase, involving the evacuation of Cape Helles, was completed on 9 January 1916 with the departure of the Newfoundland Regiment and remnants of The Plymouth Battalion, Royal Marine Light ...Por Scott Allsop

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8th January 1790: George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address

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American President George Washington delivered the very first State of the Union address to ...Por Scott Allsop

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7th January 1785: First aerial crossing of the English Channel completed in a hydrogen balloon

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The first aerial crossing of the English Channel was conducted by Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries in a gas-filled ...Por Scott Allsop

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6th January 1066: Harold Godwinson crowned Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England

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When the Witenaġemot met after the death of Edward the Confessor, the elected Harold to be the new king and his coronation took place the same ...Por Scott Allsop

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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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por 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 ...Por Scott Allsop