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The First White House Christmas Tree

August 20, 2026

Benjamin Harrison, Republican candidate for president, 1881. Print, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-46701. No known restrictions on publication.

Benjamin Harrison was born August 20, 1833. In 1889 he put the first documented Christmas tree in the White House, upstairs in the family library, so his grandchildren would have a Christmas.

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The Night the White House Burned: August 24, 1814

August 19, 2026

William Strickland after George Munger, A View of the Presidents House in the City of Washington after the Conflagration of the 24th August 1814. Aquatint, 1814. Library of Congress, no known restrictions on publication.

On August 24, 1814, British troops burned the President's House. Before they arrived, Dolley Madison ordered Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington taken down. It still hangs in the East Room.

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New York Authorizes Independence: July 9, 1776

July 9, 2026

"Pulling Down the Statue of King George III" by Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, circa 1859. On the night of July 9, 1776, after the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Washington's troops, a crowd in lower Manhattan tore down the gilded lead statue of the king and recast it into musket balls.

On July 9, 1776, New York became the thirteenth and last colony to authorize independence. That same night, its citizens tore down a two-ton statue of King George III on Bowling Green and melted it down into bullets.

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