1851 Fire devastated the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., destroying about 35,000 volumes.
1943 President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces during World War II.
1968 the Apollo 8 astronauts, orbiting the moon, read passages from the Old Testament Book of Genesis during a Christmas Eve TV broadcast.
1982 - Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic
1992, President Bush pardoned former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five others in the Iran-Contra scandal. I dont have a clue of who this is what what ths scabdal was.
2002 Laci Peterson was reported missing from her Modesto, Calif., home, by her husband, Scott, who was later convicted of murdering her and their unborn son.