Beer barrels are destroyed by prohibition agents at a dump after prohibition of alcohol began and the Volstead Act went into effect on Jan. 17, 1920. (AP Photo) Jan. 16 1865: Union Maj. Gen. William […]
“The Curse of the Bambino”, a decades-long sports superstition began on Jan. 3, 1920, when Babe Ruth’s contract with the Boston Red Sox was sold to the New York Yankees. (AP Photo) Jan. 2 1942: […]
The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York, pictured in 1905, opened on Jan. 1, 1892. (AP Photo) Dec. 26 1908: Jack Johnson became the first black boxer to win the world heavyweight championship as […]
Dec. 19 1777: Gen. George Washington led his army of more than 12,000 soldiers to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. 1998: President Bill Clinton was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives for perjury and obstruction of […]
Orville and Wilbur Wright test their airplane on a beach near Kitty Hawk. The brothers conducted the first successful manned powered airplane on Dec. 17, 1903. (AP Photo) These transformational events in history happened this […]
American ships burn during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo) Dec. 5 1848: President James K. Polk sparked the Gold Rush of ’49 by confirming that gold had […]
Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, pictured in 2001, was arrested on Dec.1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a racially segregated bus in Alabama. (Paul Warner / AP […]
Edward Teach, known as “Blackbeard” the pirate was killed off the coast of N.C. on Nov. 22, 1718. (Johnson, Charles, “Capt. Teach alias Black-Beard” in “A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the […]
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