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1. 30th December 1993: Israel and the Vatican City begin diplomatic relations

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2. 29th December 1170: Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered in front of the altar of Canterbury Cathedral

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3. 28th December 1918: Constance Markievicz becomes the first woman to be elected to the Parliament of the UK

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4. 27th December 1922: Hōshō, the world’s first purpose-built aircraft carrier, commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy

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5. 26th December 1973: Horror film The Exorcist first released in cinemas

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6. 25th December 1066: William of Normandy, known as William the Conqueror, crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey

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7. 24th December 1826: The Eggnog Riot broke out at West Point Military Academy, New York

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8. 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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9. 22nd December 1971: Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) officially established in Paris, France

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10. 21st December 1620: The first Mayflower Pilgrims land at Plymouth

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11. 20th December 1951: EBR-I in Idaho becomes the first nuclear reactor to generate usable electricity

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12. 19th December 1487: Largest recorded human sacrifices in Mesoamerican history at the Sixth Great Temple of Tenochtitlan

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13. 18th December 1898: The world’s first officially recognised land speed record is set

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14. 17th December 1903: Wright brothers make the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight

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15. 16th December 1773: The Boston Tea Party throws a shipment of tea into Boston Harbor

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16. 15th December 1933: The Twenty-first Amendment to the US Constitution repeals prohibition

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17. 14th December 1287: St Lucia’s Flood kills over 50,000 people around the North Sea

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18. 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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19. 12th December 1963: Kenya gains independence from the United Kingdom

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20. 11th December 1866: The first transatlantic yacht race begins in Sandy Hook, New Jersey

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