The party quickly built support and by 1856 it proved to be the dominant political force in the North when John C. Fremont, the first Republican presidential candidate, won 11 of the 16 Northern states.
A referendum in South Africa resulted in white South Africans voting to end apartheid.
On the 4th March 1789, the United States constitution went into effect when the first US Congress met.
Approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota, for 71 days.
After intense debate Senators voted 48 to 8 to seat Revels as the first African-American in the United States Senate.
Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry signed a bill that redrew electoral boundaries in the first example of ‘gerrymandering’.
On the 4th January 1642, Charles I attempted and failed to arrest the Five Members of Parliament, prompting the English Civil War and his own eventual execution for treason.
On the 30th December 1922, the USSR – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – was founded.
On the 26th December 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union met for the last time to formally dissolve itself and the Soviet Union.
On the 6th December 1956, the “Blood in the Water” water polo match took place between the USSR and Hungary.
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