A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, December 18th!
| 1865 | Slavery is abolished in the United States. The 13th Amendment is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution, ensuring that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude… shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”  |
| 1892 | Peter Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker Suite” premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia. |
| 1915 | In a single night, about 20,000 Australian and New Zealand troops withdraw from Gallipoli, Turkey, undetected by the Turks defending the peninsula. |
| 1915 | President Woodrow Wilson, widowed the year before, married Edith Bolling Galt.  |
| 1916 | The Battle of Verdun ends with the French and Germans each having suffered more than 330,000 killed and wounded in 10 months. It was the longest engagement of World War I. |
| 1925 | Soviet leaders Lev Kamenev and Grigori Zinoviev break with Joseph Stalin. |
| 1940 | Adolf Hitler issues his secret plans for the invasion of the Soviet Union–Operation Barbarossa. |
| 1941 | Japan invades Hong Kong. |
| 1942 | Adolf Hitler meets with Benito Mussolini and Pierre Laval. |
| 1944 | Japanese forces are repelled from northern Burma by British troops. |
| 1944 | The Supreme Court upheld the wartime relocation of Japanese-Americans. |
| 1951 | North Koreans give the United Nations a list of 3,100 POWs. |
| 1956 | Japan is admitted to the United Nations.  |
| 1957 | The first nuclear facility in the United States to generate electricity, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, went online. |
| 1958 | The world’s first communications satellite was launched by the United States aboard an Atlas rocket. |
| 1960 | A rightist government is installed under Prince Boun Oum in Laos as the United States resumes arms shipments. |
| 1965 | U.S. Marines attack VC units in the Que Son Valley during Operation Harvest Moon. |
| 1969 | Britain’s Parliament abolished the death penalty for murder. |
| 1970 | An atomic leak in Nevada forces hundreds of citizens to flee the test site. |
| 1972 | The United States began the heaviest bombing of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. |
| 1987 | Ivan F. Boesky was sentenced to three years in prison for plotting Wall Street’s biggest insider-trading scandal.  |
| 2003 | A judge in Seattle sentenced confessed Green River killer Gary Ridgeway to 48 consecutive life terms. |
| 2003 | A jury in Chesapeake, Va., convicted teenager Lee Boyd Malvo of two counts of murder in the Washington-area sniper shootings. (He was later sentenced to life in prison without parole.) |
| 2008 | A U.N. court in Tanzania convicted former Rwandan army Col. Theoneste Bagosora of genocide and crimes against humanity for masterminding the killings of more than half a million people in a 100-day slaughter in 1994.  |
| 2009 | Reality TV stars Jon and Kate Gosselin, parents of eight children, divorced. |
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