On Dec. 27, 1932, Radio City Music Hall opened in New York.
Dec.27 (UPI) — On this date in history: In 1932, Radio City Music Hall opened in New York. In 1941, Japanese warplanes bombed Manila in the Philippines even though it had been declared an “open city.” In 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts — Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, William Anders — returned to Earth after orbiting the moon 10 times in a flight that helped open the way for moon-landing missions. In 1983, Pope John Paul II met privately in a jail cell with Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish man who shot and attempted to assassinate the pontiff in 1981. The pope pardoned the 25-year-old.
