December 24
1865
Months after the fall of the Confederacy and the end of slavery, several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, Tennessee called the Ku Klux Klan.
Its first priority, it declared in its creed, was “to protect the weak, the innocent, and the defenseless from the indignities, wrongs, and outrages of the lawless, the violent, and the brutal.”
1924
Costa Rica withdrew from The League of Nations to protest U.S. Monroe Doctrine which stated U.S. is “big daddy” of North and South America.
1992
President George Herbert Walker Bush pardoned six people in the Iran-Contra case, among them former Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger and Robert McFarlane, former national security advisor.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 