On this day :

2000 Al Gore concedes presidential election, 1776 General Charles Lee leaves his troops for Widow Whites tavern, 2003 Seattles Hat n Boots finds a new home, 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, 1951 John S Service dismissed from State Department, 2000 Texas Seven prison break, 1916 Soldiers perish in avalanche as World War I rages, 1577 Drake sets out, 1621 First export of American furs, 1642 Tasman discovers New Zealand, 1937 The Rape of Nanking, 2003 Saddam Hussein captured, 1925 Dick Van Dyke born, 1915 Mystery writer Ross Macdonald is born, 1980 Kenny Rogers Greatest Hits goes to 1, 1798 Joseph Walker born in Tennessee, 1918 Wilson arrives in France, 1983 Pistons and Nuggets play recordbreaking game, 1972 Peace negotiations in Paris deadlocked, 1974 North Vietnamese commence attack on Phuoc Long Province, 1918 President Wilson makes first US presidential trip to Europe, 1942 Goebbels complains of Italians treatment of Jews,