10 Timeline Memories:
1.1823] Debuted on this date: The poem “A Visit From St. Nicholas” (‘Twas the night before Christmas’) by Clement C. Moore is published in the Troy (NY) Sentinel…1942] Bob Hope does his first Christmas show to entertain U.S. airmen in Alaska. A Christmas tradition is born…
2.1834] TAXiiiiiiiii: English architect Joseph Hansom patents his “safety cab” a.k.a. the horse-drawn ‘Hansom Cab’, still clippety, cloppin’ in Central Park for the price of a king’s ransom…
3.1888] Can you ear me now?: Following a quarrel with Paul Gauguin, Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh cuts off part of his own earlobe. My question is a simple one: Why didn’t he cut off Gauguin’s ear???
4.1959] Busted: Chuck Berry is arrested for “transporting a minor across a state line for an immoral purpose”…
5.1968] Released on this date: 82 crew members of the U.S. intelligence gathering ship, Pueblo, are released by North Korea after being captured 11 months earlier…
6.1969] Wedding Bells: Elton John and Bernie Taupin begin their songwriting marriage…1997] Woody Allen, 62, marries the adopted daughter of wife Mia Farrow, 27-year old Soon-Yi Previn. This is still distasteful 12 years later…
7.1972] Immaculate reception: That’s what they called the catch made by the Steelers Franco Harris on a last-second play that won a playoff game for Pittsburgh over Oakland, 13-7...
8.1997] Guilty as charged: A jury in Denver convicts Terry Nichols for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. Nichols is serving a lifetime term without parole…2004] Former Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland pleads guilty to a corruption charge. He later serves a year and a day…
9.2003] I beg your pardon: New York Governor George Pataki pardons the late comedian Lenny Bruce for his 1964 obscenity conviction…
10.2003] Holy Cow: The U.S. government announces the first suspected case of mad cow disease in the U.S. It is later confirmed…For more on December 23:
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