In 1799, George Washington died at his home in Virginia.
In 1819, Alabama was admitted as the 22nd U.S. state.
In 1911, explorer Roald Amundsen and his party became the first humans to reach the South Pole.
In 2012, a 20-yearold gunman killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, before taking his own life.