On this day in 1998, the US House of Representatives impeached President Bill Clinton
On this day in 1865, slavery in the United States was officially abolished, as the Thirteenth Amendment entered into force
On this day in 1903, the famous Wright brothers made their first successful sustained airplane flight
On this day in 1773 the incident known as the Boston Tea Party, in which American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians threw 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company from ships into Boston Harbor.
On this day in 2011, the US officially declared the end of their mission in Iraq, signifying the end of the Iraq war
On this day in 1911 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person ever to reach the South Pole