December 5th, 1933Prohibition ends in the United States after more than a dozen years, as Utah ratifies the 21st Amendment to the constitution. That measure repeals the 18th Amendment, which had banned the manufacture, sale or transportation of alcoh
December 2nd, 1954In Washington, the US Senate takes the rare step of condemning one of its own, Joseph McCarthy, Republican of Wisconsin. McCarthy is censured for bringing the Senate into disrepute after his anti-communist crusade and its tactics co
December 7th, 1941 a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. All of a sudden, seaplanes were dropping bombs in the distance and then of course
December 6th, 1889Jefferson Davis, the first and only, President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War dies in New Orleans. Davis spent two years in prison after the war and was indicted for treason, but never faced trial. 1969Vio
A date which will live in infamy. December 8th, 1941America enters World War Ⅱ as Congress declares war on Japan, a day after its attack on Pearl Harbor. President Franklin D. Roosevelt tells lawmakers during a joint session in Washington. With con
December 9th, 1992Britains Prince Charles and Princess Diana announce their separating. It happens more than a decade after their widely watched wedding that seemed like something out of a fairy tale. Divorce becomes final for the royal couple nearly
December 10th, 1964Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Junior accepts his Nobel Peace Prize in Norways capital Oslo. The clergyman and activist is honored for his nonviolent campaign to end segregation of African Americans in the south. I stil
December 1st, 1955Whats considered the birth of the modern Civil Rights Movement takes place in Montgomery, Alabama. We just like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and have the same rights and privilege as anybody else. Rosa Parks, a
November 1st, 1765The Stamp Act takes effect, as Britain imposes a tax on its American colonists. They respond with stiff resistance and Britain later repeals the Act. But the episode sets the stage for the American Revolution a decade later. 1952The
December 12th, 2000More than a month after the votes are cast, Americans finally know who their next president will be. Republican George W. Bush becomes president elect after the divided US Supreme Court effectively halts recounts in Floridas contes
December 13th, 2003Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. US forces capture Iraq's ousted dictator Saddam Hussein nearly nine months after the fall of Baghdad. Saddam is caught while hiding in a hole under a farm house near his hometown of Tikrit. In 2006
December 14th 1799George Washington, the Revolutionary War general who became Americas first president dies at his Mount Vernon estate in Virginia at age 67. 1911Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen and his group become the first men to reach the South
December 11th, 1936Britains King Edward the VIII becomes the first and only monarch to voluntarily give up his countrys throne . Edward abdicates in order to marry an American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson and he takes the title of the Duke of Win
December 17th, 1903Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright conduct the first successful manned, powered flight of the airplane. The brothers achieved the pioneering feet with their experimental craft, dubbed the Wright Flyer. 1957T
December 16th, 1773The Boston Tea Party takes place more than a year before the revolutionary war breaks out. American colonists board British ship to protest tea taxes and dump hundreds of chests of tea over board. 1944World War IIs battle of the Bu
December 15th, 1961An Israeli court sentences former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann to death for his role in the holocaust during World War II. He is hanged the following year, denying to the end his responsibility for the Nazis mass killing of Jews in
December 18th, 1944The US Supreme Court rules on the forced relocation and detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II. While the High Court opposes the relocation, it adds the Americans of Japanese ancestry who are undeniably loyal can no lo
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