1968 Apollo 8 was launched on a mission to orbit the moon.
1970 Elvis Presley met with President Richard M. Nixon in the Oval Office to discuss fighting drugs.
1988, a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pan Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.
1995 The city of Bethlehem passed from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1996 After two years of denials, House Speaker Newt Gingrich admitted violating House ethics rules.
2006 Four Marines were charged with murder in the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, and four Marine officers were accused of failures in investigating and reporting the deaths. (Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich has pleaded not guilty to voluntary manslaughter; one of the officers was acquitted and charges against the rest were dropped.)
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