1st January 1942: Declaration by the United Nations agreed and signed by the four major Allied nations during the Second World War
01/1/2026
The original signatories – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the USSR’s Ambassador to the US Maxim Litvinov, and Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs T. V. Soong – were joined the next day by a further 24 ...
31st December 1853: New Year’s Eve dinner takes place inside a model of an Iguanodon at the Crystal Palace Park in south London
31/12/2025
The dinner was widely reported and helped generate public interest in the Crystal Palace Park's life-sized models of extinct animals, which opened to visitors the following ...
30th December 1922: Foundation of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
30/12/2025
In 1922 the USSR consisted of just four Soviet republics – the Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR and Transcaucasian ...
29th December 1890: Lakota Sioux massacred at Wounded Knee
29/12/2025
More than 150 Native Americans from the Lakota tribe were killed by U.S. soldiers in the Wounded Knee ...
28th December 1537: Francis I of France establishes the first legal deposit for books under the Ordonnance de Montpellier
28/12/2025
The Ordonnance de Montpellier required printers and booksellers to deposit a copy of every book published in the kingdom with the royal ...

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