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

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

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

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

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

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

29th November 1850: The Declaration of Olmütz signed by Prussia and Austria

The Declaration of Olmütz was signed between Prussia and Austria, in which Prussia submitted to Austrian ...

28th November 1520: Ferdinand Magellan leads the first European fleet into the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic as part of his planned circumnavigation of the globe

The channel they found through the South American landmass was named the Strait of All Saints, but is now known as the Strait of ...

27th November 1809: The Berners Street hoax causes chaos in central London

Englishman Theodore Hook orchestrated a practical joke known as the Berners Street hoax in the heart of ...

26th November 1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon enter the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings

Although Tutankhamun was one of the minor Pharaohs, the discovery of his tomb is significant for it being the most complete example of a royal tomb ever ...

25th November 1491: The Treaty of Granada ends Islamic rule on the Iberian Peninsula

The Treaty of Granada ended the Granada War and brought about the end of Islamic rule on the Iberian ...

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

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

23rd November 1450: Ottoman forces abandon the First Siege of Krujë, after being unable to defeat Skanderbeg’s forces

The Ottomans had suffered up to 20,000 casualties compared to Skanderbeg’s 1,000 during the ...