TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Dec. 30, 1972

The United States halted its heavy bombing of North Vietnam.

ON THIS DATE

1903

About 600 people died when fire broke out at the recently opened Iroquois Theater in Chicago.

1999

Former Beatle George Harrison fought off a knife-wielding intruder who’d broken into his mansion west of London and stabbed him in the chest.