December 23 1968 the astronauts of Apollo rates become the first human
beings to orbit the moon they read passages from the Old Testament book of
Genesis during a TV broadcast on Christmas Eve and there weren't playing
1865 in Pulaski Tennessee several Confederate Army veterans form a private
social club called the Ku Klux Klan the white supremacist group targets blacks
and other groups with violence during post-civil war reconstruction and into
the civil rights era 1906 Canadian physicist Reginald Fessenden becomes the
first person to transmit the human voice his own as well as music over radio the
audience for his broadcast from Brant rock Massachusetts would have been radio
telegraph operators aboard ships in the Atlantic Ocean and 1871
the world premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida in Cairo Egypt to celebrate
the opening of the Suez Canal today in history
December 24th Associated Press