Scott Allsop's Blog, page 164
December 23, 2019
24th December 1826: The Eggnog Riot broke out at West Point Military Academy, New York
Cadets sought to continue the annual tradition of drinking homemade eggnog on Christmas ...
December 22, 2019
23rd December 1823: The Night Before Christmas first published
On the 23rd December 1823, the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", more commonly known as "The Night Before Christmas" was published anonymously in the New York ...
December 21, 2019
22nd December 1894: Alfred Dreyfus found guilty of treason in France
The origin for the scandal lay in the discovery of a ripped-up letter in a waste basket at the German Embassy in ...
December 20, 2019
21st December 1913: First modern crossword puzzle printed
On the 21st December 1913, the first modern crossword puzzle was printed in the New York World ...
December 19, 2019
20th December 1924: Adolf Hitler released from Landsberg Prison
In November 1923 Hitler was imprisoned after he led a failed coup against the Weimar Government by trying to seize power in the Bavarian city of ...
December 18, 2019
19th December 1843: A Christmas Carol first published
On the 19th December 1843, Charles Dickens’ novella A Christmas Carol was published in London by Chapman & ...
December 17, 2019
18th December 1898: The world’s first officially recognised land speed record is set
French aristocrat Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the world’s first officially recognised land speed ...
December 16, 2019
17th December 1903: Wright brothers make first aircraft flight
On the 17th December 1903, American brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human ...
December 15, 2019
16th December 1773: The Boston Tea Party throws a shipment of tea into Boston Harbor
The British government had passed the Tea Act seven months earlier on 10 May, partly in an attempt to support the struggling East India ...
December 14, 2019
15th December 1933: 21st Amendment ends prohibition in the USA
On the 15th December 1933, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution came into effect, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment which had made the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol ...
