The Apollo lunar-landing program ends on December 19, , when the last three astronauts to travel to the moon splash down safely in the Pacific Ocean. Apollo 17 had lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, 10 days before. In July , after three years of preparation, the With the onset of the bitter winter cold, the Continental Army under General George Washington, still in the field, enters its winter camp at Valley Forge, 22 miles from British-occupied Philadelphia.
Washington chose a site on the west bank of the Schuylkill River that could be Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. On December 19, , commander of the Continental Army George Washington, the future first president of the United States, leads his beleaguered troops into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Things could hardly have looked bleaker for Washington and the Continental The book, filled with proverbs preaching industry and prudence, was published continuously for 25 years and became one of the most popular publications in colonial America, selling an Titanic catapulted its young stars Leonardo Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife, Elena Bonner, from their internal exile in Gorky, a major city on the Volga River that was then closed to foreigners.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have In a major shake-up of the military high command, Adolf Hitler assumes the position of commander in chief of the German army. The German offensive against Moscow was proving to be a disaster. Then there was the Ontario Professional Hockey League, also known as the Trolley and as the Canadian Hockey League, that started in and disbanded in The CHA lasted until The last of those teams may be more familiar to readers as the Montreal Canadiens.
Teams and leagues were underfinanced, undermanned and not always drawing much of a crowd. World War I, in which many Canadian hockey players saw action, further complicated and destabilized attempts to establish solid professional leagues. To a large degree, the NHA owners who met at the Windsor Hotel were trying to break free of one of their own, an owner by the name of Eddie Livingstone, who was not in attendance.
Combative, argumentative and generally unpleasant to work with, Livingstone probably deserves most of the credit for creating the league we know and love today as the NHL. Livingstone had bad history with all other owners, especially Lichtenhein.
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