DECEMBER 28
1945:Congress officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance and encourages its recitation in schools. Although the oath of loyalty to the United States and its flag was originally written by Francis Bellamy in 1892, the words “under God” will not be added until 1954.
1832: Vice President John C. Calhoun resigns from office over differences between himself and President Andrew Jackson. An avid defender of slavery and states’ rights, Calhoun will fill a vacant seat for South Carolina in the U.S. Senate.
1973: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn publishes The Gulag Archipelago in Paris. The three-volume work exposes the repressive Soviet police state and, although it is an instant success in the West, the inflammatory nature of the book leads to Solzhenitsyn being stripped of his citizenship and deported from the Soviet Union.
1832: Vice President John C. Calhoun resigns from office over differences between himself and President Andrew Jackson. An avid defender of slavery and states’ rights, Calhoun will fill a vacant seat for South Carolina in the U.S. Senate.
1973: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn publishes The Gulag Archipelago in Paris. The three-volume work exposes the repressive Soviet police state and, although it is an instant success in the West, the inflammatory nature of the book leads to Solzhenitsyn being stripped of his citizenship and deported from the Soviet Union.
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