History Blog

December 24

Happy Birthday RIP Howard Hughes Jr(1905–1976) Ava Gardner(1922–1990) Mary Teresa Higgins(“Clark” 1927–2020) ; Karl Diedrich Bader–54 Enrique Martín Morales(“Ricky Martin”)–49 Jeremy Greenberg(Davidson)–49 Ryan Seacrest–46 ; 1851 – Fire devastated the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., destroying about 35,000 volumes