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–
