On the 22nd December 1989, Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu was overthrown.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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On the 20th December 1917, the Russian Bolshevik secret police known as the Cheka was established.
William Pitt the Younger became the youngest ever Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
Æthelwold ætheling, a claimant to the Anglo-Saxon throne was defeated at the Battle of the Holme.
The United Nations General Assembly established UNICEF to provide help for children in countries affected by World War II.
The Great Smog of London descended on the British capital due to a combination of air pollution and weather conditions.
South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant.
On the 28th November 1520, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan led the first European ships from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific as part of his planned circumnavigation of the earth.
On the 26th November 1922, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon entered the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings.
On the 18th November 1916, the Battle of the Somme ended when German troops retired from the final large British attack at the Battle of the Ancre amid worsening weather.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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