On This Day

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4 December 1980

Eureka Stockade

3 December 1854

St. Andrew's Day

30 November 1320

U.N. votes for partition of Palestine

29 November 1947

Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific

28 November 1520

Pope Urban II orders first Crusade

27 November 1095

Archaeologists enter tomb of King Tut

26 November

“The Mousetrap” opens in London

25 November

“Origin of Species” is published

24 November 1869

Vasco da Gama

Rounded the Cape of Good Hope 22 November 1497

Nuremberg trials begin

Twenty-four high-ranking Nazis went on trial in Nuremberg, Germany, for atrociti...