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23rd December 1750: Ben Franklin accidentally shocks himself while trying to electrocute a turkey

23rd December 2018
Tagged as: America, Benjamin Franklin, Electricity, Experimentation, Science, Turkey

Benjamin Franklin, the American polymath, accidentally electrocuted himself while attempting to kill a turkey.

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6th February 1778: France and the US sign the first treaties that recognise American independence

6th February 2018
Tagged as: Alliance, America, American Revolution, American War of Independence, Benjamin Franklin, Britain, Diplomacy, Economy, France, Louis XVI, Trade

France and the United States signed the first two treaties ever negotiated by the American government, and which formally recognised the independence of the United States.

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23rd December 1750: Ben Franklin accidentally shocks himself while trying to electrocute a turkey

6th February 1778: France and the US sign the first treaties that recognise American independence

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21st January 1981: First DeLorean sports car produced (famous as the ‘Back to the Future’ car)

4th December 1872: Deserted US merchant ship Mary Celeste found drifting in the Atlantic

12th July 1561: The consecration of Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow

26th August 1789: Adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Man in France

23rd October 1911: Italian Carlo Piazza pilots the first aircraft to be used in war

22nd October 1895: Granville-Paris express train crashes through a wall in Paris

21st October 1966: 144 people killed in the Aberfan disaster

20th October 1935: Mao Zedong’s Red Army finishes the Long March

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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