Good Morning *Christmas Hangover*

anybody sad that Christmas is over?



1776 After crossing the Delaware River into New Jersey, George Washington leads an attack on Hessian mercenaries at Trenton, and takes 900 men prisoner.

1786 Daniel Shay leads a rebellion in Massachusetts to protest the seizure of property for the non-payment of debt.

1806 Napoleon's army is checked by the Russians at the Battle of Pultusk.

1862 38 Santee Sioux are hanged in Mankato, Minnesota for their part in the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. Little Crow has fled the state.

1866 Brig. Gen. Philip St. George Cooke, head of the Department of the Platte, receives word of the Fetterman Fight in Powder River County in the Dakota territory.

1917 As a wartime measure, President Woodrow Wilson places railroads under government control, with Secretary of War William McAdoo as director general.

1925 Six U.S. destroyers are ordered from Manila to China to protect interests in the civil war that is being waged there.

1932 Over 70,000 people are killed in a massive earthquake in China.

1941 General Douglas MacArthur declares Manila an open city in the face of the onrushing Japanese Army.

1943 The German battleship Scharnhorst is sunk by British ships in an Arctic fight.



JOTD: Little Sally came home from school with a smile on her face, and told her mother, "Frankie Brown showed me his weenie today at the playground!" Before the mother could raise a concern, Sally went on to say, "It reminded me of a peanut." Relaxing with a hidden smile, Sally's mom asked, "Really small, was it?" Sally replied, "No, salty." Mom fainted.