Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on December 11th!
| 1816 | Indiana became the 19th state. 
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| 1861 | A raging fire sweeps the business district of Charleston, South Carolina, adding to an already depressed economic state. |
| 1862 | Union General Ambrose Burnside occupies Fredericksburg and prepares to attack the Confederates under Robert E. Lee. |
| 1863 | Union gunboats Restless, Bloomer and Caroline enter St. Andrew’s Bay, Fla., and begin bombardment of both Confederate quarters and saltworks. |
| 1882 | A production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe at Boston’s Bijou Theatre becomes the first performance in a theatre lit by incandescent electric lights. |
| 1927 | Nearly 400 world leaders sign a letter to President Calvin Coolidge asking the United States to join the World Court. |
| 1930 | As the economic crisis grows, the Bank of the United States closes its doors. |
| 1933 | Reports say Paraguay has captured 11,000 Bolivians in the war over Chaco. |
| 1936 | Britain’s King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.  |
| 1941 | The United States declares war on Italy and Germany. |
| 1943 | U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull demands that Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria withdraw from the war. |
| 1945 | A Boeing B-29 Superfortress shatters all records by crossing the United States in five hours and 27 minutes. |
| 1946 | UNICEF (the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) was established.  |
| 1951 | Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement from baseball. |
| 1955 | Israel raids Syrian positions on the Sea of Galilee. |
| 1964 | Frank Sinatra, Jr., is returned home to his parents after being kidnapped for the ransom amount of $240,000.  |
| 1967 | The Concorde, a joint British-French venture and the world’s first supersonic airliner, is unveiled in Toulouse, France. |
| 1972 | Challenger, the lunar lander for Apollo 17, touches down on the moon’s surface, the last time that men visit the moon. |
| 1978 | Massive demonstrations take place in Tehran against the shah. |
| 1981 | The U.N. Security Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru to be its fifth secretary-general. |
| 1994 | Russian troops rolled into breakaway republic of Chechnya in a failed bid to restore Moscow’s control over the region. |
| 1997 | More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to take steps to control greenhouse gas emissions. |
| 1998 | The House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton. |
| 2000 | Shortstop Alex Rodriguez agreed to a $252 million 10-year deal with the Texas Rangers, the most lucrative sports contract in history at the time. |
| 2002 | A congressional report found that intelligence agencies before Sept. 11, 2001, were poorly organized, poorly equipped and slow to pursue clues that might have prevented that day’s terrorist attacks. |
| 2008 | Bernard Madoff was arrested, accused of running a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. (He later pleaded guilty and is serving 150 years in prison.)  |
| 2009 | Tiger Woods announced on his website that he was taking an indefinite leave from golf to try to save his marriage to Elin Nordegren. (The couple divorced in August 2010.) |
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