18-Dec
Franz Ferdinand (Archduke of Austria who was assassinated in 1914)
Franz Ferdinand (Archduke of Austria who was assassinated in 1914)
George Santayana (Philosopher/Poet)
Richard W Sears (Merchant)
Charles Ringling (Circus Leader)
Henry Ford (Owner of Ford Company)
William Randolph Hearst (Publisher)
In a speech to the Prussian Parliament, Prime Minister Otto Von Bismarck declared “Politics is not an exact science.”
President Lincoln announced his plan for the Reconstruction of the South.
President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day. (The holiday would move to the third Thursday of November in 1939 before Congress