On December 18, 1620, with the English ship Mayflower
anchored in Plymouth Harbor, Massachusetts, a small
party of sailors from the vessel went ashore, as its
passengers prepare to begin their new settlement,
Plymouth Colony.
On December 18, 1932, the Chicago Bears defeated the
Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans, 9-0, in the NFL’s first playoff
game—and first game played indoors.
The victory gave the Bears the championship and leads to
a playoff system for the first time. Because of frigid weather
and waist-deep snow, the game was moved from Wrigley
Field to Chicago Stadium, home of the city’s NHL team.
Following its ratification by the requisite three-quarters of the
states earlier in the month, 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.”
On December 17, 1892, Arthur Baldwin Turnure first published
a new magazine, dedicated to “the ceremonial side of life”
and targeted at “the sage as well as the debutante, men of
affairs as well as the belle.”
As a product of the Gilded Age, Vogue has chronicled and
influenced high society, fashion and culture ever since.
Publisher Condé Nast purchased Vogue in 1905, changing it
to focus almost entirely on women and fashion and creating
the first of its international editions (there are now over 20).
The magazine has remained popular and relevant ever since,
regularly featuring the work of world-famous models, writers
and photographers.
Arthur Baldwin Turnure(1856–1906)
Vogue, November 2024.
During World War II, U.S. Major General Henry C. Pratt issues
Public Proclamation No. 21, declaring that, effective January
2, 1945, Japanese American “evacuees” from the West Coast
could return to their homes.
At the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941,
about 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry lived on the
US mainland, mostly along the Pacific Coast.
About two thirds were full citizens, born and raised in the
United States. Following the Pearl Harbor attack, however,
a wave of anti Japanese suspicion and fear led the Roosevelt
administration to adopt a drastic policy toward these residents,
alien and citizen alike.
Virtually all Japanese Americans were forced to leave their
homes and property and live in camps for most of the war.
The government cited national security as justification for
this policy although it violated many of the most essential
constitutional rights of Japanese Americans.
Japanese Americans arriving at an assembly center near Stockton, California. Their possessions are piled outside awaiting inspection before being transferred to the
barracks (1942).
