Astrology: Take a look at your daily horoscope

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

1990

The World Wide Web, the system providing quick access to websites over the Internet, was born in Geneva, Switzerland, as computer scientists Tim Berners- Lee and Robert Cailliau created the world’s first hyperlinked webpage.

1066

William the Conqueror was crowned King of England.

1776

Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, New Jersey, during the American Revolutionary War.

1818

“Silent Night” was publicly performed for the first time during the Christmas Midnight Mass at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.

1926

Hirohito became emperor of Japan, succeeding his father, Emperor Yoshihito.

1946

Comedianw. C. Fields died in Pasadena, California, at age 66.

1977

Comedian Sir Charles Chaplin died in Switzerland at age 88.

1989

Ousted Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were executed following a popular uprising. Former baseball manager Billy Martin, 61, died in a traffic accident near Binghamton, New York.

1991

Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a communist superpower that had already gone out of existence.

2003

Sixteen people were killed by mudslides that swept over campgrounds in California’s San Bernardino Valley. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf survived a second assassination bid in 11days, but 17other people were killed.

2009

Passengers aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 foiled an attempt to blow up the plane as it was landing in Detroit by seizing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to set off explosives in his underwear.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Singer Jimmy Buffett is 74. Pro and College Football Hall- of- Famer Larry Csonka is 74. Country singer Barbara Mandrell is 72. Actor Sissy Spacek is 71. Former White House adviser Karl Rove is 70. Singer Annie Lennox is 66. Baseball Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson is 62.