Today is Monday, Dec. 11, the 345th day of 2017. There are 20 days left in the year.<strong>On Dec. 11, 1917,</strong> British Gen. Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem two days after his forces expelled the Ottoman Turks; in a show of respect, Allenby and his officers ...
Today is Sunday, Dec. 10, the 344th day of 2017. There are 21 days left in the year.<strong>On Dec. 10, 1817,</strong> Mississippi was admitted as the 20th state of the Union.<strong>In 1520,</strong> Martin Luther publicly burned the ...
Today is Saturday, Dec. 9, the 343rd day of 2017. There are 22 days left in the year.<strong>On Dec. 9, 1892,</strong> “Widowers’ Houses,” Bernard Shaw’s first play, opened at the Royalty Theater in London.<strong>In 1935,</strong> ...
Today is Friday, Dec. 8, the 342nd day of 2017. There are 23 days left in the year.<strong>On Dec. 8, 1941</strong>, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Imperial Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl ...
Today is Thursday, Dec. 7, the 341st day of 2017. There are 24 days left in the year.<strong>On Dec. 7, 1941,</strong> during a series of raids in the Pacific, Imperial Japan’s navy launched a pre-emptive attack on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, ...
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 6, the 340th day of 2017. There are 25 days left in the year.<strong>On Dec. 6, 1917,</strong> some 2,000 people were killed when an explosives-laden French cargo ship, the Mont Blanc, collided with the Norwegian vessel Imo at the harbor in ...
