Today in history.

[Bugman]

1732. Benjamin Franklin publishes the first edition of Poor Richard's Almanac.

1777. The Continental Army enters winter quarters at Valley Forge.

1907. A coal mine in Jacobs Creek Pa. explodes, killing 239 workers.

1972. Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the moon blasts off from the lunar surface.

 

[paracarl44]

Today in History.

1957: Elvis Presley is drafted into the Army.

 

[PhilipRJ_UK]

1950 Cardiff becomes the capital city of Wales.

 

[osprey825]

1972. Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the moon blasts off from the lunar surface.

Eugene Cernan - another of my heroes. Thanks for posting, Bugman.

 

[paracarl44]

Pan Am Flight 103.

It was in 1988 that Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland killing 259 passengers aboard the plane and 11 people on the ground.

 

[Bugman]

Thanks guys.

1945. General George S. Patton dies in a military hospital in Germany, less than two weeks after suffering a broken neck in a freak car accident.

1958. Charles De Gaulle elected first president of the Republic of France.

1968. Apollo 8 lifts off from Florida. While in lunar orbit on Christmas Eve they make their famous live TV broadcast, reading from The Book of Genesis.

 

[PhilipRJ_UK]

1951 Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement.

1963 The NZ All Blacks beat Wales for the first time.

 

[paracarl44]

A Christmas gift for President Lincoln.

On this day in 1864 General William T. Sherman wires President Abraham Lincoln to tell him that he has captured the city of Savannah, Georgia.

 

[Bugman]

1620. Construction of the Plymouth settlement begins.

1783. Addressing Congress, George Washington resigns as Commander of the Continental Army.

1944. General Dwight D. Eisenhower approves the execution of Eddie Slovik for desertion under fire.

1948. Hideko Tojo, former premier of Japan and commander of the Kwantung Army, is hanged as a war criminal.

1982. The citizens of Times Beach Missouri are told to evacuate after the unpaved roads are found to be laden with the toxic chemical dioxan.

 

[paracarl44]

December 27:

1900: Carry Nation smashes a bar with a hatchet in the Carey Hotel in Wichita, Kansas.


^Bugman's grandfather was stressed out when his favorite watering hole was damaged.^



1968: Apollo 8 lands safely in the Pacific Ocean after orbiting the moon on Christmas Day.