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1. 31st December 1853: New Year’s Eve dinner takes place inside a model of an Iguanodon at the Crystal Palace Park in south London

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2. 30th December 1922: Foundation of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

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3. 29th December 1890: Lakota Sioux massacred at Wounded Knee

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4. 28th December 1537: Francis I of France establishes the first legal deposit for books under the Ordonnance de Montpellier

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5. 27th December 1929: Stalin calls for the ‘liquidation of the kulaks as a class’

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6. 26th December 1991: Soviet Union dissolved in the final meeting of the Supreme Soviet

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7. 25th December 800: Charlemagne crowned emperor by Pope Leo III during Christmas Mass at St Peter’s Basilica

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8. 24th December 1955: Colorado Springs Continental Air Defense Command first gives children the location Santa as he delivers presents

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9. 23rd December 1750: Ben Franklin accidentally shocks himself while trying to electrocute a turkey

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10. 22nd December 1964: Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird strategic reconnaissance aircraft makes its first flight

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11. 21st December 1913: First modern crossword puzzle printed in the New York World newspaper, created by Arthur Wynne

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12. 20th December 1917: Establishment of the Cheka, the Russian Bolshevik secret police

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13. 19th December 1777: George Washington leads the Continental Army into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

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14. 18th December 1892: Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker receives its première performance at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg

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15. 17th December 497 BCE: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome

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16. 16th December 1431: Henry VI became the only English monarch to be crowned King of France

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17. 15th December 1851: The Forest Creek Monster Meeting of Australian gold miners protests taxes

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18. 14th December 1911: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen becomes the first to reach the South Pole

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19. 13th December 1577: Francis Drake departs Plymouth on his circumnavigation of the globe

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20. 12th December 1935: The Lebensborn registered association established in Nazi Germany by the SS

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