1861: The Confederacy admitted Kentucky as it recognized a pro-Southern shadow…
HISTORY LESSON
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1965: “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” the first animated TV special featuring…
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1941: The United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against…
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1941: The Empire of Japan launched an air raid on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl…
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1865: The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery, was…
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1848: In an address to Congress, President James K. Polk sparked the Gold Rush…
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1956: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, dubbed the…
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1947: The Tennessee Williams play “A Streetcar Named Desire” opened on Broadway…
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1823: President James Monroe outlined his doctrine opposing further European…
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1824: The presidential election was turned over to the U.S. House of…
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1782: The United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris…
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1864: A Colorado militia launched an unprovoked attack on an encampment of…
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1520: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after…
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billed as a “Christmas Parade” — took place in New York.
1970: Pope Paul VI,…
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1791: President George Washington held his first full cabinet meeting; in…
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1783: Following the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, the last remaining…
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1859: British naturalist Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species,”…
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1863: Thousands of Union soldiers under Gen. Ulysses S. Grant marched out of…
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1935: A flying boat, the China Clipper, took off from Alameda, California,…
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1920: On “Bloody Sunday,” the Irish Republican Army killed 14 suspected British…
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1947: Britain’s future queen, Princess Elizabeth, married Prince Philip, Duke…
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1863: President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the…
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1928: “Steamboat Willie,” the first cartoon with synchronized sound as well as…
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1869: The Suez Canal opened in Egypt.
1968: The last minutes of a tense NFL…
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1914: The newly created Federal Reserve Banks opened in 12 cities.
1973:…
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1777: The Second Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation.…
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1851: Herman Melville’s novel “Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale” was published in the…
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1956: The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling that found Alabama…
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1927: Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon…
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1620: Forty-one Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts,…