December 24

Happy Birthday RIP Howard Hughes Jr(1905–1976) Ava Gardner(1922–1990) ; Mary Teresa Higgins("Clark")–89 Karl Diedrich Bader–50 Enrique Martín Morales("Ricky Martin")–45 Jeremy Greenberg(Davidson)–45 Ryan Seacrest–42 ; 1851 – Fire devastated the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., destroying about 35,000 volumes