Today is Monday, Dec. 18, the 352nd day of 2017. There are 13 days left in the year.<strong>On Dec. 18, 1892,</strong> Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet “The Nutcracker” publicly premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia; although now considered a classic, it ...
Today is Sunday, Dec. 17, the 351st day of 2017. There are 14 days left in the year.<strong>On Dec. 17, 1967,</strong> Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt, 59, disappeared while swimming in the ocean off Cheviot Beach in Victoria state; despite an extensive search, ...
Today is Saturday, Dec. 16, the 350th day of 2017. There are 15 days left in the year.<strong>On Dec. 16, 1773</strong>, the Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest ...
Today is Thursday, Dec. 14, the 348th day of 2017. There are 17 days left in the year.<strong>On Dec. 14, 2012</strong>, a gunman with a semi-automatic rifle killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., then committed ...
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 13, the 347th day of 2017. There are 18 days left in the year.<strong>On Dec. 13, 1937,</strong> the Chinese city of Nanjing fell to Japanese forces during the Sino-Japanese War; what followed was a massacre of war prisoners, soldiers and ...
Today is Tuesday, Dec. 12, the 346th day of 2017. There are 19 days left in the year. Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, begins at sunset.<strong>On Dec. 12, 1917,</strong> during World War I, a train carrying some 1,000 French troops from the Italian front ...
