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Historical Events
on December 27th
- Lead Story
- Radio City Music Hall opens,1932
- American Revolution
- Americans raid Hammonds Store,1780
- Automotive
- Office of Price Administration begins to ration automobile tires,1941
- Civil War
- Hood's army crosses the Tennessee River,1864
- Cold War
- Soviets take over in Afghanistan,1979
- Crime
- Carry Nation smashes bar,1900
- Disaster
- Coal mine explodes in India,1975
- General Interest
- HMS Beagle departs England,1831
- Apollo 8 returns to Earth,1968
- Spanish king ratifies democratic constitution,1978
- Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto assassinated,2007
- Hollywood
- Agnes Nixon, “Queen of Modern Soap Opera,” born,1927
- Literary
- Peter Pan, by James Barrie, opens in London,1904
- Music
- The legend of "Stagger Lee" is born,1895
- Old West
- Doniphan's Thousand takes El Paso,1846
- Presidential
- FDR seizes control of Montgomery Ward,1944
- Sports
- Peyton Manning breaks single-season touchdown pass record,2004
- Vietnam War
- U.S. and South Vietnamese troops attack Viet Cong stronghold,1966
- U.S. and North Vietnamese forces battle near Loc Ninh.,1969
- World War I
- Poles take up arms against German troops in Poznan,1918
- World War II
- Germans form the Smolensk Committee to enlist Soviet soldiers,1942
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