TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Dec. 27, 1932

New York City’s Radio City Music Hall first opened.

ON THIS DATE

1831

Naturalist Charles Darwin set out on a round-the-world voyage aboard the HMS Beagle.

1979

Soviet forces seized control of Afghanistan. President Hafizullah Amin, who was overthrown and executed, was replaced by Babrak Karmal.

1999

Space shuttle Discovery and its sevenmember crew returned to Earth after fixing the Hubble Space Telescope.

2000

President Bill Clinton put the first Black judge on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals serving several Southern states.