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2025-01-09

  9th January 1916: Gallipoli campaign ends with an Ottoman victory following the final withdrawal of Allied forces

Troops were first withdrawn from the Suvla Bay and Anzac Cove areas in December 1915. The final phase, involving the evacuation of Cape Helles, was completed on 9 January 1916 with the departure of the Newfoundland Regiment and remnants of The Plymouth...
  Scott Allsop author
2025-01-05

  5th January 1953: Samuel Beckett’s play En Attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot) premieres at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris

Beckett originally wrote the play in French, despite being fluent in English, as he believed the language allowed for greater simplicity and precision. It has since became one of the most studied and performed plays of the 20th ...
  Scott Allsop author
2024-12-28

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

Markievicz stood as a Sinn Féin candidate and secured over 63% of the vote in the constituency of Dublin St Patrick’s, but refused to take the oath of allegiance to the British crown and consequently did not take her seat in the House of ...
  Scott Allsop author
2024-12-27

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

While other nations had converted ships into carriers the Japanese ship, named Hōshō, was the first to be designed and constructed as an aircraft carrier from the ...
  Scott Allsop author
2024-12-22

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

One of the organization’s first missions was in Nicaragua following the devastating 1972 earthquake. Since then, MSF has expanded its operations worldwide, responding to emergencies such as the Rwandan Genocide, the Ebola outbreaks in West Africa, and ...
  Scott Allsop author
2024-12-20

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

Having begun power operation at the end of August 1951, on December 20 Atomic Energy Program scientists at the EBR-I successfully used the reactor to produce enough electricity to power four 200 watt light ...
  Scott Allsop author
2024-12-19

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

Historical accounts, particularly from post-conquest sources, describe the central importance of a mass sacrifice involving around 4,000 prisoners of war in which the victims’ abdomens were cut open and their hearts ...
  Scott Allsop author
2024-12-13

  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

Although the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee inflicted significant damage on the British HMS Exeter, the combined efforts of three British cruisers successfully crippled the Graf Spee’s fuel system and she was later ...
  Scott Allsop author
2024-12-11

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

The first transatlantic yacht race, from Sandy Hook in New Jersey to the Needles off the coast of the Isle of Wight in England, was the result of a drunken wager between three prominent New York businessmen: James Gordon Bennett Jr., Pierre Lorillard, ...
  Scott Allsop author
2024-12-05

  5th December 1955: Montgomery bus boycott begins in Alabama, marking a pivotal moment in the American Civil Rights Movement

The boycott lasted for 381 days and called for African Americans in Montgomery to refrain from using the city’s buses, which were segregated, until fair treatment was ...
  Scott Allsop author