On December 20, 1860, a secession convention in South Carolina voted unanimously to secede from the Union. Fearing that Republican Abraham Lincoln’s administration would appoint antislavery officials who would undermine slavery, slaveholders chose to abandon the Constitution and form their own nation. To justify…
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December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William Seward officially proclaimed the Thirteenth Amendment ratified, officially ending slavery in the United States. Seward’s announcement was especially fulfilling to the New Yorker, who had spent much of his adult life fighting for the end of slavery.…
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The most famous ‘tea party’ ever took place on the evening of December 16, 1773, in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. The Sons of Liberty, led by Samuel Adams, writes The History Channel, rallied “against British Parliament and protested the Griffin’s Wharf arrival of Dartmouth, a British East…
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“Gone with the Wind,” one of the most iconic films in cinematic history, premiered on December 15, 1939, at Loew’s Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. The event was a grand spectacle, attended by numerous celebrities, dignitaries, and the film’s cast and crew. The premiere…
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On December 14, 1903, at the windswept dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright made their first attempt at history. The brothers had dedicated years of meticulous research and experimentation to achieve controlled, sustained flight, and this moment marked the culmination…
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The capture of Saddam Hussein was a pivotal moment in modern history, marking a significant turning point in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. On December 13, 2003, American forces, acting on intelligence information, located and apprehended the former Iraqi president near…
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On May 1, 1915, the RMS Lusitania left port in New York to travel back to Great Britain. It never made it when it was sunk by German U-Boats nearly a week later, changing the course of World War 1. “The Lusitania, which was owned by…
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