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
On December 13, 1925, Dick Van Dyke, the quintessential
“nice guy” actor who would become known for his roles
in such movie classics as Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty
Bang Bang, as well as the popular 1960s TV sitcom The
Dick Van Dyke Show, is born in West Plains, Missouri.
Initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961, to June 1, 1966,
a total of 158 half-hour episodes spanning five seasons.
On the set.
Andre Braugher, known for his role as Captain Ray Holt on
"Brooklyn Nine-Nine," has died. He was 61.
Braugher’s publicist confirmed to Fox News Digital that he
died following a brief illness.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a police procedural comedy television series that aired on Fox, and later on NBC, from September
17, 2013 to September 16, 2021, for eight seasons and 153 episodes.
Irish-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi ushered in a new era of
global communications, sending the first radio transmission
across the Atlantic Ocean on this day in history, Dec. 12, 1901.
The message was the letter "s" in Morse code (dot-dot-dot). But
it proved after years of advances by Marconi that radio could
make the world a smaller place.
The wireless signal traveled 2,000 miles from a transmitting
station in Poldhu, Cornwall, in the far southwestern corner of
England, to a receiving station in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi
(25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937)
