On December 13, 1862, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army
of Northern Virginia repulsed a series of attacks by General
Ambrose Burnside’s Army of the Potomac at Fredericksburg,
Virginia.
The defeat was one of the most decisive loses for the Union army,
and it dealt a serious blow to Northern morale in the winter of 1862-
63.
General Ambrose Burnside General Robert E. Lee
ED DONAHUE
NOTE: Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 –
8 September 2022)
The series ran from December 11, 1980, to May 8, 1988,
during its first-run broadcast on CBS.
Magnum, P.I. consistently ranked in the top 20 U.S. television
programs in the Nielsen ratings during the first five years of
its original run, finishing as high as number three for the 1982–
83 season.
The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in
the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace
on December 10, 1901.
The ceremony came on the fifth anniversary of the death of
Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and other high explosives. In his will, Nobel directed that the bulk of his vast
fortune be placed in a fund in which the interest would be
“annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during
the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.”
Although Nobel offered no public reason for his creation of the
prizes, it is widely believed that he did so out of moral regret
over the increasingly lethal uses of his inventions in war.
First award ceremony at the Royal Swedish Academy of
Music.
Swedish chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel
(21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896)
(FOX NEWS) – "A Charlie Brown Christmas," a beloved holiday
television tradition for generations of American families, debuted
to overwhelming popular acclaim despite network fears of failure
on this day in history, Dec. 9, 1965.
Expectations were low for its success, according to several
accounts of the history of the broadcast.
CBS executives were underwhelmed by the slow pace of the
production; and the network had battled behind the scenes
with "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz over the inclusion
of a scene lifted straight from the New Testament of the Bible.
Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz
(November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000)
On December 3, 1947, Marlon Brando’s famous cry of “STELLA!”
first booms across a Broadway stage, electrifying the audience
at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre during the first-ever performance
of Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire.
A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most critically acclaimed
plays of the twentieth century and Williams’s most popular work.
The 23-year-old Brando played the rough, working-class Polish-
American Stanley Kowalski, and his violent clash with Blanche
DuBois (played on Broadway by Jessica Tandy),
Jessica Tandy with Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named
Desire.
Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter and Marlon Brando.
From Act Three, Scene Five.
