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8 years ago+20 20 026th December 1966 - Jimi Hendrix writes “Purple Haze”
Hendrix moved to England in 1966 and teamed up with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell to form The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The group scored an almost immediate UK hit with “Hey Joe,” which was released in mid-December. It was 10 days la ...
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8 years ago+30 30 025th December 1914 - The Christmas Truce
Just after midnight on Christmas morning, the majority of German troops engaged in World War I cease firing their guns and artillery and commence to sing Christmas carols. At certain points along the eastern and western fronts, the soldiers of Russia ...
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8 years ago+29 29 024th December 1979 - Soviet tanks roll into Afghanistan
As midnight approached, the Soviets organized a massive military airlift into Kabul, involving an estimated 280 transport aircraft and three divisions of almost 8,500 men each. Within a few days, the Soviets had secured Kabul, deploying a special ass ...
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8 years ago+41 41 0 x 123rd December 1888 - Van Gogh chops off ear
Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, suffering from severe depression, cuts off the lower part of his left ear with a razor while staying in Arles, France.He later documented the event in a painting titled Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. Today, Van Gogh ...
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8 years ago+18 18 0A watchmaker's paradise
In the Joux Valley, in the south-west corner of Switzerland, the traditional craft of watchmaking is flourishing, as John Laurenson discovers.
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8 years ago+20 20 022nd December 1900 - First “Mercedes” is delivered to its buyer
The first car to be produced under the “Mercedes” name is delivered to its buyer: Emil Jellinek, the Austrian car racer, auto dealer to the rich and famous, and bon vivant. Jellinek had commissioned the Mercedes car from the German company Daimler-Mo ...
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8 years ago+18 18 021st December 1988 - Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Scotland
Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York explodes in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members aboard, as well as 11 Lockerbie residents on the ground. A bomb hidden inside an audio cassette player detonated in ...
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8 years ago+28 28 0Why British beer is huge in China
Some of Britain’s best-loved ales are seeing an explosion of interest from Asia. Norman Miller looks behind the numbers to examine their new-found popularity.
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8 years ago+23 23 020th December 1963 - Berlin Wall opened for first time
More than two years after the Berlin Wall was constructed by East Germany to prevent its citizens from fleeing its communist regime, nearly 4,000 West Berliners are allowed to cross into East Berlin to visit relatives. Under an agreement reached betw ...
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8 years ago+36 36 019th December 1972 - Last lunar-landing mission ends
The Apollo lunar-landing program ends on December 19, 1972, when the last three astronauts to travel to the moon splash down safely in the Pacific Ocean. Apollo 17 had lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, 10 days before.
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8 years ago+5 5 0Japan's curious passion for the business novel
When Japanese people want a really good read they may not pick a spy thriller, a sci-fi fantasy or a throbbing romance - they may choose a novel about the world of business, with a besuited middle manager as its hero.
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8 years ago+19 19 0Why K2 Brings Out the Best and Worst in Those Who Climb It
Mountaineers risk avalanches, storms, conflicts, and a curse when they attempt to summit the peak.
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8 years ago+24 24 018th December 1620 - Mayflower docks at Plymouth Harbor
The British ship Mayflower docked at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, and its passengers prepared to begin their new settlement, Plymouth Colony.
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8 years ago+22 22 0Maths palace built by calculus 'rock star' on sale for £11.4m
James Stewart’s calculus text books made him very rich. He spent his fortune on Integral House, an award-winning architectural marvel inspired by calculus, which is now on sale after he died last year.
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8 years ago+26 26 0Bull's-eye Moons
Like a cosmic bull's-eye, Enceladus and Tethys line up almost perfectly for Cassini's cameras.
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8 years ago+33 33 017th December 1903 - First airplane flies
Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft. Orville piloted the gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane, which stayed aloft for 12 seconds a ...
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8 years ago+37 37 0 x 1Star Wars' Abrams leads move from CGI to reality
JJ Abrams, director of the new Star Wars movie, is among the high-profile film-makers going back to using traditional means of scene-setting instead of relying on the relative ease of CGI.
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8 years ago+16 16 0 x 1The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
An ever-growing collection of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci thumbnailed and available for downloading.
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8 years ago+25 25 016th December 1773 - The Boston Tea Party
In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor. The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party,” was in protest of the British Par ...
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8 years ago+26 26 0A Long December Weekend in Edinburgh, Scotland
We traveled to Edinburgh for a long weekend as Rico already needed to go up for work on that Thursday—extending the trip seemed an obvious choice to escape for a few days! Thursday was spent primarily working, but Friday brought our first day of wand ...