During the Revolution War, General George Washington’s army wows the British in the battle of Princeton, New Jersey, that follows Washington and his troops crossing the Delaware River and beating the Hessian's  nearby Trenton.

1990Panama ousted leader General Manuel Noriega surrender to US forces after taking refuge of the Vatican’s diplomatic mission. He’s later convited and sentenced to prison in US for Coccaine traffcking/and money laundering.

1967Jack Ruby, the night club owner who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald just days after President John F. Kennedy assasination, dies at a/ hospital.

1892Take a note, Lord of Rings invents after JRR Tolkien created the trilogy that found its way into the big screen is born in South Africa.

Today in History, Jan 3rd, Mill Hanna, the Associat Press.