12/20/1865
In Washington, DC, the first session of the Thirty-ninth Congress of the United States adjourns for what is now becoming its traditional fourteen day holiday recess. It will return on January 6, 1866. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation:
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, "House History." http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/house_history/index.html