12/11/1816 - Indiana was declared the 16th state.
12/12/1913 - The "Mona Lisa" was recovered in France after being stolen from the Louvre two years earlier.
12/13/1918 - President Woodrow Wilson became the first U.S. president to visit Europe while in office when he took a trip to France.
12/14/1799 - At age 67, George Washington died.
12/15/1939 - The classic movie "Gone With The Wind" premiered in Atlanta.
12/16/1773 - The Boston Tea Party dumped three shipfulls of tea into the Boston Harbor to protect unfair taxes.
12/17/1903 - Orville and Wilbur Wright made their first successful flight in a plane at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
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