Today’s highlight

In 1965, “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” the first animated TV special featuring characters from the “Peanuts” comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, premiered on CBS.

On this date

1854: Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s famous poem, “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” was published in England.

1911: An explosion inside the Cross Mountain coal mine near Briceville, Tennessee, killed 84 workers.

1917: British forces captured Jerusalem from the Ottoman Turks.

1987: The first Palestinian intefadeh, or uprising, began as riots broke out in Gaza and spread to the West Bank, triggering a strong Israeli response.

1990: Solidarity founder Lech Walesa (lek vah-WEN’-sah) won Poland’s presidential runoff by a landslide.

1992: Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their separation. 2000: The U-S Supreme Court ordered a temporary halt in the Florida vote count on which Al Gore pinned his best hopes of winning the White House.

2006: A fire broke out at a Moscow drug treatment hospital, killing 46 women trapped by barred windows and a locked gate.

2011: The European Union said 26 of its 27 member countries were open to joining a new treaty tying their finances together to solve the euro crisis; Britain remained opposed.