On this day: December 18
POSTED: 10:51 PM PST Dec 17, 2012
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Dec 17, 2012
America celebrates its first official day of thanksgiving, "The Nutcracker" debuts, the first "Pink Panther" short premieres, the first nuclear power plant in America goes online, all on this day.
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1912: At a meeting of the Geological Society of London, Charles Dawson announces that a workman at the Piltdown gravel pit had given him a fragment of the skull four years earlier. The skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is later found to be a hoax.
