ON THIS DAY: In 2011, the last convoy of heavily armored U.S. troops left Iraq. ABC News' martharaddatz remembers traveling with the final U.S. combat troops leaving Iraq.
In 1865, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, was declared in effect by Secretary of State William H. Seward.
In 1940, Adolf Hitler signed a secret directive ordering preparations for a Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. In 1958, the world’s first communications satellite, SCORE , nicknamed “Chatterbox,” was launched by the United States aboard an Atlas rocket. In 2020, the U.S. added a second COVID-19 vaccine to its arsenal, as the Food and Drug Administration authorized an emergency rollout of the vaccine developed by Moderna Inc. and the National Institutes of Health; a vaccine from Pfizer Inc. and Germany’s BioNTech was already being dispensed.
Five years ago: An Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster route hurtled off an overpass south of Seattle and spilled some of its cars onto the highway below; three people were killed and dozens were hurt.
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