Cadets sought to continue the annual tradition of drinking homemade eggnog on Christmas Eve.
10th April 1971: US table tennis team ushers in ping pong diplomacy
10th April 2020
On the 23rd December 1823, the poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”, more commonly known as “The Night Before Christmas” was published anonymously in the New York Sentinel.
On the 19th December 1843, Charles Dickens’ novella A Christmas Carol was published in London by Chapman & Hall.
On the 9th December 1965, American television network CBS first broadcast the animated cartoon A Charlie Brown Christmas.
The Christmas Truce saw soldiers on the First World War’s Western Front take part in a series of unofficial ceasefires.
On the 24th December 1955, the Colorado Springs’ Continental Air Defense Command first began giving children the current location of Santa as he made his way across the world delivering presents.
The Saturnalia festival was dedicated to Roman god, Saturn.
15th July 1975: The Apollo Soyuz Test Project lifted off
15th July 2020
14th July 1789: Storming of the Bastille
14th July 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018