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December 16, 1995 - The Husker volleyball team won its first national championship on Dec. 16, 1995, over the University of Texas.

Coach Terry Pettit turned the program over to John Cook in 2000, and the team would go undefeated and win their second national championship that same year.

In 2013, Bob Devaney Sports Center was reopened as a venue for volleyball, and Nebraska has led the nation in volleyball attendance since.

2020 Major winter storm hits US Northeast resulting in at least seven deaths and Binghamton, New York, receiving record 41 inches of snow

6 died from COVID

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
Titanic Released in US Theaters (1997)
Before Titanic was released, some film critics predicted that it would be a box office disaster. At the time, it was the costliest film ever made, and production delays had pushed the release date far past the lucrative summer season. Yet by the end of its first weekend, the three-hour-long film was selling out theaters. It won 11 Academy Awards and remained the highest-grossing film in history for 12 years.

Many of my female jr. high classmates spent a lot of time in movie theaters over the 97-98 Christmas break watching Titanic on repeat.

My i s c & a aggie wife and I had just started dating in August of 1997 and Titanic was probably the first movie we went to see together.  I say "probably" because it's definitely the first I remember, but there might have been one or two others between August and December.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Marie and Pierre Curie Discover Radium (1898)
Scientists Marie and Pierre Curie were working with pitchblende, a heavy mineral known to contain the radioactive element uranium, when they noticed something unusual. Somehow, the pitchblende was more radioactive than the uranium it contained. The culprit was radium, a previously unknown element present in pitchblende only in trace amounts—yet more than a million times more radioactive than uranium.

1620 Mayflower Pilgrims come ashore in Plymouth Bay, traditionally thought to be at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts

1864 US Civil War: General Sherman's Union Army captures Savannah, Georgia, which surrenders to him, at the end of his March To the Sea Campaign

1866 Fetterman Massacre: Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians kill all 81 US Army soldiers, the worst military disaster suffered by the U.S. Army on the Great Plains at the time

1872 Phileas Fogg completes his round the world trip in 80 days, in Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days"

1891 First game of basketball, based on rules created by James Naismith, is played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts, celebrated today as World Basketball Day

1898 Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium

1914 First feature-length silent film comedy "Tillie's Punctured Romance" ia released, starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin

1919 J. Edgar Hoover persuades US to deport 250 alien radicals, including anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman and her husband to Russia

1937 "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", the first full-length animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre, Los Angeles

1937 Chicago Black Hawks left wing Paul Thompson becomes first player in NHL history to score against his brother, Boston Bruins goaltender Cecil Thompson; scores with just 9 seconds left in regulation as Bruins win 2-1

1941 Chicago Bears Ray McLean makes last NFL drop kick for an extra point

1944 US forces captured Stavelot, Belgium, while the Germans surrounded Bastogne and captured St. Vith.

1949 Biblical film "Samson and Delilah" premieres in New York, directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature

1958 Charles de Gaulle wins a seven-year term as the first President of the Fifth Republic of France

1959 Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988)

1969 Vince Lombardi (Washington Redskins) coaches his last football game, a 20-10 loss to the Cowboys in Dallas, for a 7-5-2 season and 105-35-6 career

1970 Elvis Presley meets US President Richard Nixon in the White House; the image of this meeting is the most requested photo from the entire National Archives

1978 Police in Des Plaines, Illinois, arrest John Wayne Gacy for murder

1987 Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 cosmonauts - Vladimir Titov, Musa Manarov, and Anatoli Levchenko - to space station Mir. Titov and Manarov stay in space for just under 366 days, setting a new spaceflight record

1988 A terrorist bomb destroys Pan Am Flight 103 in mid-air over Scotland, killing all 259 passengers and crew on board and 11 people on the ground

1775 Continental Navy is organized with 7 ships; Esek Hopkins is appointed the first commander

1882 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison

1885 Samurai Itō Hirobumi becomes the first Prime Minister of Japan

1932 "The Mummy," directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff, is released in the US as the first Mummy horror film

1941 Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C. for a wartime conference

1944 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium.......NUTS

1958 Christmas novelty single "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" by fictional characters David Seville and the Chipmunks reaches #1, the only holiday chart-topper until Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" in 2019

1964 First flight of the US aircraft Lockheed SR-71, reaches 2193.44 mph (record for a jet)

1964 American comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted of obscenity

1965 "Doctor Zhivago" based on the novel by Boris Pasternak, directed by David Lean, and starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, premieres in NYC

1967 "The Graduate", American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, premieres

1972 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed

1978 Kenney Jones becomes The Who's new drummer, replacing the deceased Keith Moon

1984 Madonna's single "Like a Virgin" reaches #1 and stays there for 6 weeks

1989 Cold wave: -6°F in Tulsa, Oklahoma; -12°F in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; -18°F in Denver, Colorado; -23°F in Kansas City, Missouri; -42°F in Scottsbluff, Nebraska; -47°F in Hardin, Montana; and -60°F in Black Hills, South Dakota

2018 Tsunami hits Indonesia's Sunda Strait killing over 400 after part of the Anak Krakatoa volcano slips into the sea

2019 New Orleans wide receiver Michael Thomas sets NFL record for most catches in a season with his 144th as Saints beat Tennessee 38-28; breaks 17-year old record held by Marvin Harrison (143)