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• 11th December 1936: King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom announces his abdication in a worldwide radio broadcast

  King Edward VIII Edward abdicated in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson, and became known as the Duke of ...

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• 10th December 1948: Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris

  Drafted in the aftermath of the Second World War and the revelations of mass atrocities committed by totalitarian regimes, the declaration aimed to provide a shared framework for human dignity applicable to all ...

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• 9th December 1921: Lead identified as a fuel additive to reduce engine knocking in automobiles

  Thomas Midgeley Jr. discovered that adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knocking in automobile ...

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• 8th December 1980: John Lennon murdered outside his New York apartment block by Mark David Chapman

  As Lennon walked from his limousine to the Dakota building’s front entrance, Mark David Chapman fired five rounds at his back, of which four hit ...

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• 7th December 1995: NASA’s Galileo spacecraft becomes the first to enter orbit around Jupiter

  Galileo’s arrival at Jupiter on 7 December 1995 demonstrated the feasibility of long-duration operations in the outer Solar System and produced findings that shaped subsequent missions, including Juno and the planned Europa ...

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