Gen. George Washington and his Continental Army crossed the Delaware
River as part of a surprise attack against Hessian forces who were
encamped at Trenton, New Jersey during the Revolutionary War.The
Hessian’s were regiments of German soldiers hired by the British Empire.

                The host of the New York show

           The Apollo 8 Astronauts, from left to right,were mission Commander
            Frank Borman, Lunar Module Pilot William Andres, and Command
            Module Pilot James Lovell. After coming out from the back side of
            the Moon,the crew read ten verses of the book of Genesis from the
            Bible. This was during a Christmas Eve TV broadcast, a portion
            of this broadcast is below.

                    

        The crew members of Apollo 8 were the first Americans to directly
        see the far side of the Moon and the first humans to see the planet
        Earth from beyond it’s low orbit.

          Ava Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990)

                                            (1946)

                                             (1953)

Ava’s third and last marriage (1951 – 1957) was to
singer/actor Frank Sinatra.

British and American peace negotiators met in Belgium where the
Treaty of Ghent was signed, thus officially ending the war.