On This Day In History
December 23:
- LEAD STORY
- Bugsy Siegel opens Flamingo Hotel, 1946
- AMERICAN REVOLUTION
- Washington wins first major U.S. victory at Trenton, 1776
- AUTOMOTIVE
- Carmaker Preston Tucker dies, 1956
- CIVIL WAR
- Possible war between U.S. and Britain is averted,1861
- COLD WAR
- Porgy and Bess opens in Leningrad, 1955
- CRIME
- Bathory’s torturous escapades are exposed,1610
- DISASTER
- Tsunami devastates Indian Ocean coast, 2004
- GENERAL INTEREST
- Jack Johnson wins heavyweight title, 1908
- Churchill addresses Congress, 1941
- The first Kwanzaa, 1966
- Tsunami wreaks havoc on Southeast Asia, 2004
- HOLLYWOOD
- The Exorcist opens, 1973
- LITERARY
- King Lear performed at Court, 1606
- MUSIC
- Jimi Hendrix writes “Purple Haze”, 1966
- OLD WEST
- Moses Austin asks Spanish for Texas colony,1820
- PRESIDENTIAL
- Truman dies, 1972
- SPORTS
- Jack Johnson wins heavyweight boxing title,1908
- VIETNAM WAR
- Laos says communists launched an offensive,1967
- U.S. jets strike North Vietnam, 1971
- WORLD WAR I
- U.S. government takes over control of nation’s railroads, 1917
- WORLD WAR II
- Britain surprises German attacker in the Arctic, 1943
- Patton relieves Bastogne,1944