Jan. 25
1945: The World War II Battle of the Bulge ended as the German army…
HISTORY LESSON
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1835: A major slave rebellion began in Bahia, Brazil, leading to the deaths of…
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1368: China’s Ming dynasty, which lasted nearly three centuries, began as Zhu…
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1973: The U.S. Supreme Court, in its Roe v. Wade decision, declared a…
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1861: Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, with a dramatic farewell speech, resigned…
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1841: The island of Hong Kong was ceded by China to Great Britain. It returned…
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1861: Georgia became the fifth state to secede from the Union; it would join…
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1778: English navigator Captain James Cook reached the present-day Hawaiian…
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1920: Prohibition of alcohol began in the United States as the Volstead Act…
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1865: Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman decreed 400,000 acres of…
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1919: In Boston, a tank containing an estimated 2.3 million gallons of molasses…
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1784: The United States ratified the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary…
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1794: President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two…
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1915: The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposed constitutional…
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1693: The most powerful earthquake in Italian recorded history strikes Sicily…
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1776: Thomas Paine anonymously published his influential pamphlet, “Common…
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1861: Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union, the same…
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1815: The last major engagement of the War of 1812 came to an end as U.S.…
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1610: Astronomer Galileo Galilei observed three of Jupiter’s moons for the…
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1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address,…
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1896: An Austrian newspaper reported the discovery by German physicist Wilhelm…
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1809: French educator Louis Braille, who developed a system of printing and…
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1777: Gen. George Washington’s army routed British troops in the Battle of…
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1890: President Benjamin Harrison appointed Alice Sanger as the first female…
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Dec. 31
1904: New York’s Times Square saw its first New Year’s Eve celebration…
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1903: More than 600 people died when fire broke out at the recently opened…
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1890: The Wounded Knee massacre took place in South Dakota as more than 250…
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1065: The original Westminster Abbey in London was consecrated and opened by…
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1831: Naturalist Charles Darwin set out on a round-the-world voyage from…
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1865: James H. Nason of Franklin, Massachusetts, received a patent for “an…