Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, born (1805)

Yousuf Karsh, portrait photographer (Life Magazine), born (1908)

Benedict Arnold was court-martialed for improper conduct (1779)

• Great Sites for Teaching About...The American Revolution
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Maryland voted to cede a 100 square mile area for the District of Columbia (1788)

"Visit from St Nicholas" by C. Moore published in Troy (New York) Sentinel (1823)

• Holidays Around the World: A Festival of Lessons!
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American forces on Wake Island surrendered to the Japanese during WWII (1941)

• Great Sites for Teaching About…World Wars I and II
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• A World at War
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Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley at Bell Labs (1947)

• Great Sites for Teaching About...Inventors and Inventions

Astronauts Borman, Lovell & Anders became the first men to orbit the Moon (1968)

• The Space Age
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U.S. Federal Reserve Act was passed (1913)

George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the Army and retired to his home at Mount Vernon, Va. (1783)

• George Washington Lives!--On the Internet
  George Washington: Farmer, Soldier, and First President of the United States of America. Students can learn all about him on the Internet -- by George!