Wednesday, December 15, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

DECEMBER 15
1944:Flying from England to entertain U.S. troops in Paris, band leader Glenn Miller vanishes when his single-engine U.S. Army airplane disappears into the fog over the English Channel. He is never seen again.

1939: The movie version of Margaret Mitchell’s epic Civil War-era novel Gone With the Wind, starring Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara, premieres at Loew’s Grand Theater in Atlanta, with a reported 300,000 fans lining the streets outside.

1961: Nazi S.S. Col. Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death for his role in coordinating the extermination of millions of Jews during the Holocaust. To date, Eichmann is the only person executed by Israel.

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