On this date in 1901, Delaware became the 48th state to ratify The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States which abolished slavery 36 years after it was ratified nationally by the necessary three-fourths of the states.

On this date in 2002 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, James G. Langenbach, 25, was convicted of the following crimes: two counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide while armed with a dangerous weapon; two counts of intentionally causing bodily harm while armed with a dangerous weapon; and two counts of leaving the scene of an accident involving great bodily harm. In 1999, Langerbach, who is white, intentionally drove his 1989 Chrysler onto a sidewalk in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and struck Dontrell Langston, 14 and Austin Hansen-Tyler, 14, both African-American teens. Langerbach, born on June 24, 1971 in Kenosha, had written a note stating, “I’m here to get this white/black race B.S. started and it looks like I did,” which was found in his car by police following his hateful attack on the teens. It was also reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Langerbach had been previously convicted for twice ramming a van carrying five African-American passengers. On September 22, 2004, Langerbach's 176-year prison term was upheld by District II of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.

In the lobby at the Best Western Brandywine Valley Inn on Concord Pike in Wilmington, Delaware, on this date in 2008, Aaron Wright, 32, of North Harrison Street, who is black, is alleged to have singled out and attacked four white men because of their race. Wright is said to have used racial slurs in the attack in which he is said to have thrown chairs and punched and kicked the victims, two of whom were knocked unconscious, and another who suffered a broken leg. Alleged to have fled the scene, he was later arrested in Pennsylvania.

In the small town of Franklinton, Louisiana (Washington Parish) on this date in 2008, Andrew Carriere II, 35, of Jefferson Parish, was arrested for allegedly beating a black man with a belt while using racial slurs directed at the victim who was walking down Washington Street at the time of the attack. Carriere was charged with a hate crime, aggravated battery and resisting an officer by flight. Police have said that Carriere, who did not know the alleged victim, had a warrant for his arrest in Jefferson Parish for a probation violation in Jefferson Parish.

In Glassboro, New Jersey, on this date in 2010, a white man, Kenneth Howell Jr., 20, of Cold Spring, New Jersey, was arrested and charged with making terroristic threats, bias intimidation, consumption of alcohol by a minor, and disorderly conduct for allegedly threatening to shoot an African-American couple in the parking lot of the Landmark Americana restaurant.