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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1915: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, widowed the year before upon the death of his first wife, Ellen Axson Wilson, marries Edith Bolling Galt at her Washington, D.C., home. Wilson is one of only three presidents to be widowed while in office, and also one of only three presidents who got married while in office. Wilson and Galt are seen here together in June 1920.
