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						1 1955—Rosa Parks arrested 1824—House of Representatives decides presidential election between Jackson and John Quincy Adams
2 1823—President James Monroe declares “Monroe Doctrine” 1859—Abolitionist John Brown is hanged 1648—Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz born more	3 1847—Frederick Douglass, Martin R. Delaney begin anti-slavery paper “The North Star” 1755—American painter Gilbert Stuart born 1857—Polish-born English novelist Joseph Conrad born	4 1833—American Anti-Slavery Society established in Philadephia 1942—FDR orders dismantling of WPA 1842—Sioux chief Ta-sunko-witko (Crazy Horse) born	5 1956—Montgomery Bus Boycott begins 1782—President Martin Van Buren is born 1830—English poet Christina Georgina Rossetti born more	6 1864—In Annual Message to Congress, Lincoln calls for passage of 13th Amendment 1865—The 13th Amendment, prohibiting slavery, is adopted 1877—Edison makes first sound recording on phonograph more	7 1873—American author Willa Cather born 1941—Japan attacks Pearl Harbor; U.S. declares war on Japan 1878—Akiko Yosano, Japanese Poet, is born	8 1765— Inventor Eli Whitney (Cotton Gin) born 1863—President Lincoln announces Reconstruction Plan for South 2012—Hanukkah begins
9 1608—English poet John Milton born 1854—Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” published	10 1948—U.N. adopts Universal Declaration on Human Rights 1898—Spanish–American War ends 1830—American poet Emily Dickinson born more	11 1803—French composer Hector Berlioz born 1918—Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn born	12 1805—Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison born 1745—First Chief Justice John Jay born	13 1862—Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg	14 1799—George Washington dies 1916—American novelist and short story writer, Shirley Jackson, born	15 1791—The Bill of Rights becomes part of Constitution 1890—Death of Chief Sitting Bull 1939—Movie version of Gone With the Wind premieres more
16 1773—Boston Tea Party 1775—English novelist Jane Austen born 1770—German composer Ludwig van Beethoven born	17 1903—Wright Brothers' first flight in Kitty Hawk 1843—Charles Dickens’s classic story “A Christmas Carol” is published	18 1878—Joseph Stalin born	19 1776—Thomas Paine publishes “American Crisis” 1777—Washington’s Continental Army marches into Valley Forge 1732—Benjamin Franklin begins publishing “Poor Richard’s Almanac” more	20 1812—“The Children’s and Household Tales,” by the Brothers Grimm, published 1803—Louisiana Purchase is formalized	21 1375—Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet, dies 1940— F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer, dies 2012—Winter begins	22 1744—Abigail Adams, 2nd first lady (1797–1801), is born
23 1888—Painter Vincent Van Gogh cuts off his ear 1863—President Lincoln writes letter of condolence to Fanny McCullough 1907—First all-steel passenger railroad coach is completed in Altoona, PA more	24 1814—Treaty of Ghent (end of the War of 1812) is signed 1818—Handel’s “Messiah” first performed in Boston 1822—Matthew Arnold, British poet, is born	25 1776—Washington's army crosses Delaware; defeats Hessians at Trenton 2011—Christmas	26 1492—First Spanish settlement in the New World is founded by Christopher Columbus 1966—Kwanzaa begins 1606—Shakespeare’s tragedy “King Lear” first performed	27 1571—Johannes Kepler, German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, is born	28 1856—Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States, is born 1732—Franklin begins publishing “Poor Richard’s Almanack” 1973—Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes expose of Soviet prison system “Gulag Archipelago”	29 1890—300 Sioux Indians are killed by U.S. troops at Wounded Knee, South Dakota 1808—Andrew Johnson, 17th U.S. president and first to be impeached, born
30 1865—Joseph Rudyard Kipling, British author, is born 1879—Gilbert & Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance” is first performed 1813—British burn Buffalo during War of 1812	31 1862—President Lincoln signs act making West Virginia a state 1879—Edison gives first public demonstration of incandescent lamp 2011—New Year's Eve more

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