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• 13th December 1577: Francis Drake departs Plymouth on his circumnavigation of the globe

  Drake’s fleet consisted of five ships, with the flagship Pelican later renamed Golden Hind, and it departed Plymouth on 13 ...

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• 12th December 1935: The Lebensborn registered association established in Nazi Germany by the SS

  Literally translated as ‘Fount of Life’, Lebensborn was designed to harness apparent racial purity through the birth of children conceived between Aryan women and members of the SS, often as a result of extramarital ...

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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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