On This Day in History - December 30, 1916: Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin is murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Petrograd river three days later. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 29, 1170: Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 28, 1918: Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, becomes the first woman to be elected Member of Parliament (MP) to the British House of Commons. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 27, 1845: Having coined the phrase "manifest destiny" the previous July, journalist John L. O'Sullivan argued in his newspaper New York Morning News that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 26, 1799: Henry Lee III's eulogy to George Washington in congress declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen". #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 25, 336: First documented sign of Christmas celebration in Rome. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 24, 1913: The Italian Hall disaster in Calumet, Michigan results in the deaths of 73 striking workers families at a Christmas party participants (including 59 children) when someone falsely yells "fire". #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 23, 1972: The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, surviving by cannibalism. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 22, 1944: World War II: Battle of the Bulge: German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!" #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 21, 1937: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre. ##EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 20, 1942 (83 years ago): World War II: Japanese air forces bomb Calcutta, India. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 19, 1900: French parliament votes amnesty for all involved in scandalous army treason trial known as Dreyfus affair. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 18z 1932: The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans in the first NFL playoff game to win the NFL Championship. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 17, 1538: Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 16, 1773: American Revolution: Boston Tea Party: Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 14, 1780: Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 13, 2003: Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 12 1870: Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 11, 1913: More than two years after it was stolen from the Louvre, Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa is recovered in Florence, Italy. The thief, Vincenzo Peruggia, is immediately arrested. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 10, 1906: U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize in any field. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 9, 1937: Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Yasuhiko Asaka launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanking. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 8, 1863: Between two and three thousand churchgoers die during the Church of the Company Fire, it began during a Mass held at the Church of the Society of Jesus in Santiago, Chile, during the celebration of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 7, 1776: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 6, 1904: Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 5, 1952: Beginning of the Great Smog in London. A cold fog combines with air pollution and brings the city to a standstill for four days. Later, a Ministry of Health report estimates 4,000 fatalities as a result of it. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 4, 1804: The United States House of Representatives adopts articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 3, 1800: United States presidential election: The Electoral College casts votes for president and vice president that result in a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 2, 1766: Swedish parliament approves the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implements it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - December 1, 1865: Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - November 30, 1782: American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris). #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - November 29, 1952: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - November 28, 1785: The first Treaty of Hopewell is signed, by which the United States acknowledges Cherokee lands in what is now East Tennessee. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - November 27, 1968: Penny Ann Early becomes the first woman to play in a major professional men's basketball league, for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - November 26, 1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - November 19, 1794: The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - November 18, 1883: In the "day of two noons", American and Canadian railroad companies institute four standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - November 11, 1620: The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod. #EVHistoryDaily

The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy... On This Day in History - November 10, 1975: The 729-foot-long freighter SSEdmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - November 9, 1888: Jack the Ripper murders Mary Jane Kelly, his final victim in the Whitechapel murders. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - November 8, 1973: The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9million. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - November 7, 1811: Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - November 6, 1577: The first recorded observation from Earth of the Great Comet of 1577 takes place by Aztec astronomers in Mexico, followed by reports from Italy on November 7 and Japan on November 8. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - November 5, 1862: American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to death. Thirty-eight are ultimately hanged and the others reprieved. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - October 27, 1948: A deadly smog event begins in Donora, Pennsylvania, eventually killing 20 and sickening thousands. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - October 26, 1881: Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday participate in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - October 25, 1812: War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian. ##EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - October 24, 1926: Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - October 23 1868: Meiji Restoration: Having taken the shogunate's seat of power at Edo and declared it his new capital as Tokyo, Mutsuhito proclaims the start of the new Meiji era. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - October 22, 1746: The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter. #EVHistoryDaily

On This Day in History - October 21, 1854: Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War. #EVHistoryDaily