On This Day: December 20

4 verified moments happened on December 20. Here they are in the order they actually happened — the same kind of puzzle you solve in Whensly every day.

1. 1860🏴 Delegates in Charleston vote unanimously to dissolve South Carolina's bond with the federal Union, the first state to formally secede.USA 250 · Source: Gilder Lehrman Institute, South Carolina Declaration of Secession (Dec 20 1860)
2. 1946Sugar Ray Robinson wins his first world championship, taking the vacant welterweight crown with a 15-round unanimous decision over Tommy Bell at Madison Square Garden.Sports · Source: Wikipedia 'Sugar Ray Robinson'; BoxRec - December 20, 1946, vacant world welterweight title over Tommy Bell at Madison Square Garden.
3. 1946🔔 Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life premieres at New York's Globe Theatre, letting George Bailey see what Bedford Falls would have become without him.Movies · Source: Hollywood Reporter / Library of Congress: world premiere, Globe Theatre
4. 1996📞 Scream opens, its movie-trivia-quizzing Ghostface killer slyly reviving the slasher genre it loves to mock.Movies · Source: Wikipedia: US release