Lets take care of unfinished business first. Today is (was) Christmas Day… ...It was on this day in 1776 that George Washington led the Continental Army across the Delaware River in a surprise attack on Hessian mercenaries… ...It’s the birthday of scientist and physicist Sir Isaac Newton, born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England (1642)... ...of Clara Barton, born in Oxford, Massachusetts, in 1821. She was working in Washington, D.C., when the Civil War broke out, and she began tending to wounded soldiers. She was afraid that soldiers would lose too much blood if they were brought to a hospital, so she started the practice of treating the wounded at the battlefield. Eventually, she went on to found the American Red Cross... ...of Rod Serling, born in Syracuse, New York (1924), best known as the creator, writer and producer of the television series The Twilight Zone, which first aired in 1959. Serling believed it was the writer’s job to “menace the public consciousness” and considered television and radio a means for social criticism... ...And it was on this day in 1968, the crew of the Apollo 8 spacecraft returned to a course for Earth after orbiting the moon 10 times over 20 hours...
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 12:57:53 +0000
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