Gretzky Scores 50 Goals in 39 Games: Shattering the Record
Wayne Gretzky dropped five goals into the net during his team's thirty-ninth game, shattering the long-standing NHL record of scoring fifty times in fifty games held by Maurice Richard and Mike Bossy. This explosive performance didn't just add a new name to the trophy case; it redefined the ceiling for offensive production in professional hockey, proving that such a feat was possible within a single season.
December 30, 1981
45 years ago
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entrée en vigueur du Code de Justinien, qui acquiert force de loi dans tout l'Empire romain d'Orient.
The first edition lasted exactly one year. Justinian scrapped it completely—too many contradictions, too many loopholes left by a thousand years of Roman law st…
King Brian Boru shatters the allied armies of Leinster and Dublin at Glenmama, ending their resistance to his rule. This crushing victory secures Munster's domi…
Joseph ibn Naghrela wasn't just any vizier — he was the most powerful Jew in Muslim Spain, commanding armies and collecting taxes for Granada's Berber king. Tha…
violent tremblement de terre, à Antioche assiégée par les troupes de la Première croisade, ressenti jusqu'à Edesse, en Grèce.
É eleito o Papa Inocêncio VI.
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