Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Day 347 - This day in legal and military history

December 13
 

NATIONAL Ice Cream Day
 

NATIONAL Violin Day
 

NATIONAL Cocoa Day
 


Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
 

1642 New Zealand was discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
 

1862 Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats Union Major General Ambrose Burnside at the Battle of Fredericksburg in Virginia
 

1972 Astronaut Gene Cernan climbs into his lunar lander on the moon and prepares to lift off. He is the last man to set foot on the moon.
 

2003 Deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured while hiding in a hole in the ground

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