On this day in 1773 the incident known as the Boston Tea Party, in which American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians threw 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company from ships into Boston Harbor.

On this day in 2011, the US officially declared the end of their mission in Iraq, signifying the end of the Iraq war

On this day in 1911 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person ever to reach the South Pole