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11:14p, 12/21/25
OTD in 1945, General George S. Patton died of injuries sustained in a car crash on December 9, 1945.
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December 22, 1944 - the 101st Airborne at Bastogne received a surrender ultimatum from the Wehrmacht that was smashing Allied lines en route to Antwerp so as to split the Allies during the Battle of the Bulge. The famous response from the commanding officer, General Anthony McAuliffe, was one simple word: "Nuts".

If the 1970 movie, Patton, was in any way accurate when Patton learned of this, Patton reportedly said "a man that eloquent has to be saved!"

https://militaryhistorynow.com/2020/09/15/nuts-the-story-of-the-famous-american-reply-to-the-german-surrender-ultimatum-at-bastogne/
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December 23rd, 1927: The Santa Claus Bank Robbery - Cisco, Texas.
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At noon Marshall Ratliff, Henry Helms, Robert Hill, and Louis Davis entered the First National Bank of Cisco with guns drawn. Ratliff, dressed in a borrowed Santa Claus costume, entered the bank vault. Some of the bank customers escaped and alerted the police and town citizens. Gunfire ensued when Ratliff came out of the vault with a sack containing money. Two policemen were mortally wounded, and Ratliff and Davis were also wounded, Davis severely. As their escape car was almost out of gas and one of the tires had been shot out, the robbers commandeered another car, but the driver took the keys with him. They then left the wounded Davis in the car, forgetting the moneybag. The fugitives escaped on foot, stole a series of cars, and had more gunfights over the next several days. They were finally captured in Graham, Texas. The infamous Santa Claus Bank Robbery led to the largest manhunt ever seen in the state at that time.

A more detailed article of this notorious bit of Texas history.
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Some good:

Some…not so much.
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December 24, 1865: The Ku Klux Klan had its beginnings in the law office of Thomas M. Jones in Pulaski, Tennessee. The name evolved from the Greek kyklos (circle), suggested by John B. Kennedy ('always an unswerving Democrat'). It was broken down into the more euphonic form Ku Klux by James R. Crowe, who added Klan as a reflection of the area's predominantly Scottish-Irish population.

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On December 24, 1943 General Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force.
In this capacity he commanded Operation Overlord, the largest combined sea, air, and land military operation in history, which was successfully launched against Nazi-occupied Europe on June 6, 1944.
General Eisenhower's uniform and pistol are on exhibit in the American Wars Gallery on the second floor of the West Point Museum.
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