On this day :

1932 Radio City Music Hall opens, 1780 Americans raid Hammonds Store, 1941 Office of Price Administration begins to ration automobile tires, 1864 Hoods army crosses the Tennessee River, 1979 Soviets take over in Afghanistan, 1900 Carry Nation smashes bar, 1975 Coal mine explodes in India, 1831 HMS Beagle departs England, 1968 Apollo 8 returns to Earth, 1978 Spanish king ratifies democratic constitution, 2007 Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto assassinated, 1927 Agnes Nixon Queen of Modern Soap Opera born, 1904 Peter Pan by James Barrie opens in London, 1895 The legend of Stagger Lee is born, 1846 Doniphans Thousand takes El Paso, 1944 FDR seizes control of Montgomery Ward, 2004 Peyton Manning breaks singleseason touchdown pass record, 1966 US and South Vietnamese troops attack Viet Cong stronghold, 1969 US and North Vietnamese forces battle near Loc Ninh, 1918 Poles take up arms against German troops in Poznan, 1942 Germans form the Smolensk Committee to enlist Soviet soldiers,