GOOD MORNING - TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, December 24, the 358th day of 2014 with 07 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 7:11 and sunset is @ 4:15. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are stars are Jupiter, Mercury & Saturn. The evening stars are Mars, Neptune, Uranus & Venus. ON THIS DAY IN: 1814 - The War of 1812 officially ended as the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Ghent in Belgium. 1851 - Fire devastated the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., destroying around 2/3 of its collection, including 2/3 of Thomas Jeffersons personal library, sold to the institution in 1815. 1865 - Some veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski,Tennessee, called the Ku Klux Klan. The name of the Ku Klux Klan is derived from the Greek word kuklos, meaning circle, and clann, a Scottish Gaelic word for the traditional tribal units of Scotland that reflects the Scottish ancestry of many of the KKKs founding members. 1871 - Giuseppe Verdis opera Aida had its world premiere in Cairo, Egypt, to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal. 1914 - In World War I, the first air raid on Britain was made when a German airplane dropped a bomb on the grounds of a rectory in Dover. 1919 - John D. Rockefeller, thought to be the worlds richest man, gave away $100 million dollars. 1942 - German rocket engineer Wernher von Braun launched the first surface-to-surface guided missile. 1943 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed the Allied Supreme Commander, even though most thought Chief of Staff George C. Marshall would get the nod. 1948 - The Perry Como Show premiered on TV. 1951 - Libya achieved independence as the United Kingdom of Libya, under King Idris I. 1963 - New Yorks Idlewild Airport was renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport in honor of the assassinated President John F. Kennedy. 1979 - Afghanistan was invaded by Soviet Union troops as the Kabul government fell. 1992 - President George Bush pardoned six Reagan aides involved in the Iran-Contra Affair, including Caspar W. Weinberger, former secretary of defense, and Robert C. McFarlane, former national security advisor. 2002 - Laci Peterson was reported missing from her Modesto, California home by her husband, Scott, who was later convicted of murdering her and their unborn son.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 12:41:59 +0000
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