Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria, abandoned off the coast of Hispaniola –
From the Pennsylvania side, General George Washington’s troops crossed the icy Delaware River at night during a winter storm for a surprise attack against a Hessian garrison in Trenton, New Jersey (American Revolutionary War) –
Bytown (Ottawa) and Prescott Railway opened in Ontario –
Union Stock Yards opens giving the south side of Chicago a distinctive smell –
Pansy blossoms picked, Manhattan, Montana –
Comic strip hero Dick Tracy married Tess Trueheart –
Weather
A chilly -57 degrees F at Fort Smith, Northwest Territories –
White Christmas from central North Carolina to New England in wake of major snowstorm, even coastal Virginia was white –
Temperatures throughout northern New England averaged -39 degrees F –
A Christmas Day mudslide ran through St. Sophia Camp, San Bernardino, California –
