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Powered by RedCircle Here are some historical events that occurred on December 19th: 1732: Benjamin Franklin first published “Poor Richard’s Almanack” under the pseudonym Richard Saunders. 1777: George Washington’s Continental Army went into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, during the American Revolutionary War. 1843: Charles Dickens’ classic holiday story, “A Christmas Carol,” was first […]

Powered by RedCircle Here are some historical events that occurred on December 18th: 1620: The Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, with Pilgrims aboard. 1787: New Jersey became the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1865: The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, abolishing slavery. 1912: The Piltdown Man, later discovered

Powered by RedCircle Here are some historical events that occurred on December 17th: 1777: France formally recognized the United States as an independent nation. 1903: Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful powered airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. 1938: Otto Hahn discovered nuclear fission, a significant breakthrough in understanding the structure of

Powered by RedCircle Here are some historical events that happened on December 16: 1773: The Boston Tea Party took place, where American colonists, disguised as Mohawk Indians, dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest against the Tea Act. 1777: The United States celebrated its first national Thanksgiving Day. 1838: The Battle of

Powered by RedCircle Here are some historical events that occurred on December 15: 1791: The United States Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, was ratified. 1890: Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. 1939: The film “Gone with the Wind”