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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
John Brown Hanged for Raid on Harpers Ferry (1859)
Brown was a radical US abolitionist who advocated armed action to end slavery. He and his supporters murdered five proslavery settlers in Kansas in 1856, and three years later he tried to start an armed liberation movement among slaves by seizing the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, intending to arm local slaves with its weapons. His small force was soon overpowered, and Brown was captured, tried for treason, convicted, and hanged.

HIS DAY IN HISTORY:
Illinois Becomes the 21st US State (1818)
At the end the French and Indian Wars, France ceded the entire Illinois region to Britain. This region was an integral part of the Old Northwest that was brought within US boundaries 20 years later by the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolution. In 1787, the area was officially designated the Northwest Territory. Made part of Indiana Territory in 1800, Illinois was granted statehood in 1818.

Hence the name of a school called Northwestern.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

Flight 19 Is Lost in the Bermuda Triangle (1945)
Flight 19 was the designation of five US Navy bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle during a navigation training flight from a naval air station in Florida. All 14 airmen involved in the exercise were lost. The search-and-rescue flight that went after them also disappeared, along with its 13-man crew, and is assumed to have exploded in midair. No wreckage from any of the six aircraft has ever been positively identified.

I've always thought it was strange how this one incident got so much press over the years.  I mean, yeah it sucked that they got lost and died, but was it really much different than other planes going missing during that era?  Notice how not much goes on in the Bermuda Triangle now that we have modern communication and GPS?  

On this date in December 5,1933 Prohibition in the United States was repealed, with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which ended the nationwide ban on alcohol established by the Eighteenth Amendment. This repeal was largely a response to the negative social and economic impacts of Prohibition, including the rise of organized crime and loss of tax revenue.

really ashamed of 94,FF and Bwarb for not mentioning this dark blot and the return to the light in our History

Ouch!

I'm pretty sure CD was unimpressed with bathtub gin...

You were out celebrating the occasion and forgot or couldn't find your trifocals to read "On This Date In History"