Video: 'Dian Fossey's death'
(Friday, December 27, 1985, just before 6 a.m. local time) — American naturalist Dian Fossey, 53, who had studied gorillas in the wild in Rwanda, was found hacked to death today at Volcanoes National Park. Continue reading American naturalist Dian Fossey found murdered 30 years ago this hour (Dec 27 1985)
Video: '1914~1918. A BBC History of the Great War: 3. Total War' (Dec. 26, 1915, at 15:27)
(Sunday, December 26, 1915, during World War I) — Vera Brittain, a 21-year-old nurse in the British Red Cross who would become a famous author and feminist after the war, was informed today that her fiancé Roland Leighton, who had been given Christmas leave, had died Dec. 23, 1915, of wounds sustained in battle at the Western Front in France.
