DECEMBER 27
1932
John D. Rockefeller Jr. opens Radio City Music Hall in New York City
as a "palace for the people," with the aim of offering affordable
entertainment during the Great Depression. The over-the-top opening night performance features Ray Bolger and Martha Graham, but the Hall is now best known for its high-kicking Rockettes and the annual Christmas spectacular. The art deco style building remains the largest indoor theater in the world.:
1831: Twenty-two-year-old British naturalist Charles Darwin goes aboard the HMS Beagle,
departing from Plymouth, England, bound for the southern Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. During the five-year voyage, Darwin conducted much of
the research contributing to his theory of evolution by natural
selection.
1900: Temperance advocate Carrie A. Nation smashes up a saloon
for the first time, destroying the bar at the upscale Carey Hotel in
Wichita, Kan. Although Nation was later jailed for causing hundreds of
dollars worth of damage, she would continue her anti-alcohol
"hatchetations" around Kansas, using her trademark hatchet to take the
enforcement of the state constitution's prohibition of alcohol into her own hands.
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