Today is Wednesday, Dec. 21, the 355th day of 2011. There are 10 days left in the year. Winter arrives.
Today’s Highlight:
On Dec. 21, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln signed a congressional act authorizing the Navy Medal of Honor.
On this date:
In 1620, Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower went ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Mass.
In 1910, 344 coal miners were killed in Britain’s Pretoria Pit Disaster.
In 1945, Gen. George Patton died in Heidelberg, Germany, of injuries from a car accident.
In 1988, 270 people were killed when a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pam Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, sending wreckage crashing to the ground.
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