Also on this day: Union forces led by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside launch futile attacks against entrenched Confederate soldiers during the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg; Northern troops, soundly defeated, would withdraw two days later.
President Woodrow Wilson arrives in France, becoming the first U.S. chief executive to visit Europe while in office. George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” premieres at Carnegie Hall in New York.
An Air Indiana Flight 216, a DC-3 carrying the University of Evansville basketball team on a flight to Nashville, crashes shortly after takeoff, killing all 29 people on board.The Philadelphia Mint begin stamping the Susan B.
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