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22nd December 1989: Overthrow of Nicolae Ceaușescu in Romania

On the 22nd December 1989, Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu was ...

21st December 1620: The first Mayflower Pilgrims land at Plymouth

The first of the Mayflower Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the Plymouth ...

20th December 1917: Cheka established by the Bolsheviks

On the 20th December 1917, the Russian Bolshevik secret police known as the Cheka was ...

19th December 1783: William Pitt the Younger becomes Britain’s youngest ever Prime Minister

William Pitt the Younger became the youngest ever Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of ...

18th December 1892: Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker first performed

On the 18th December 1892, Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker received its première performance at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. ...

17th December 497 BCE: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome

The Saturnalia festival was dedicated to Roman god, ...

16th December 1914: German Navy attack Scarborough

Shortly after 8am on the 16th December 1914, the German Imperial Navy attacked the British seaside towns of Scarborough, Hartlepool and ...

15th December 1851: The Forest Creek Monster Meeting of Australian gold miners protests taxes

Over 14,000 Australian gold miners gathered at Forest Creek in Victoria for a protest known as the Monster ...

14th December 1911: Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole

On the 14th December 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen led a team of four others to become the first to reach the South ...

13th December 902: Æthelwold’s revolt against Edward the Elder is defeated

Æthelwold ætheling, a claimant to the Anglo-Saxon throne was defeated at the Battle of the ...