DECEMBER 27
1904:J.M. Barrie’s play Peter Pan, the story of a young boy who refuses to grow up, opens at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London.
1932: With a five-hour stage spectacle featuring Martha Graham and Ray Bolger, Radio City Music Hall opens to the public. Today the art deco-style venue inside Rockefeller Center in New York, designed by Edward Durell Stone and Donald Deskey, is the largest indoor theater in the world and has welcomed more than 300 million visitors.
1979: Soviet troops invade Afghanistan to enforce the new government of President Babrak Karmal, following the execution of Hafizullah Amin. The Soviet Union will maintain a costly military presence in Afghanistan over the next nine years but will have little success in suppressing the antigovernment Mujahideen rebels.
1932: With a five-hour stage spectacle featuring Martha Graham and Ray Bolger, Radio City Music Hall opens to the public. Today the art deco-style venue inside Rockefeller Center in New York, designed by Edward Durell Stone and Donald Deskey, is the largest indoor theater in the world and has welcomed more than 300 million visitors.
1979: Soviet troops invade Afghanistan to enforce the new government of President Babrak Karmal, following the execution of Hafizullah Amin. The Soviet Union will maintain a costly military presence in Afghanistan over the next nine years but will have little success in suppressing the antigovernment Mujahideen rebels.
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