In 1776, Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, New Jersey, and more events that happened on this day in history.
In 1776, Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, New Jersey,In 1776, Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, New Jersey, during the American Revolutionary War.1989: Billy Martin
In 1989, former baseball manager Billy Martin, 61, died in a traffic accident near Binghamton, New York.In 1989, ousted Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were executed following a popular uprising.In 1991, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a communist superpower that had already gone out of existence.
In 2009, passengers aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 foiled an attempt to blow up the plane as it was landing in Detroit by seizing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab , who tried to set off explosives in his underwear. Ten years ago: A suicide bombing of a Catholic church near Nigeria’s capital left at least 44 people dead.
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