A December premiere that made history
On 18 December 1892, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker was presented for the first time at the Mariinsky Theatre in...
On 15 December 1955, the armed anti-colonial campaign of EOKA (1955–59) recorded its first guerrilla death in combat: Charalambos (Haralambos) G. Mouskos, a member...
Western Australia, November–December 1932.
The enemy: thousands of emus.
The weapon: two Lewis machine guns.
The result: one of the most bizarre military defeats...
