Today in history
Subtitle: December 21
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Subjects: Winter; African-American musicians; Biography; Jazz musicians; History
Other titles: December 21
Description: Presents information on winter, which begins on the shortest day of the year, December 21 or 22. Also presents information on Louis Jordan, an African-American musician and vocalist whose single "Let the good times roll" debuted on the rhythm and blues charts on December 21, 1946, as well as information on the Hoover Dam built in Black Canyon, on the Arizona-Nevada border. On December 21, 1928 President Calvin Coolidge signed the Boulder Canyon Project Act to dam the fourteen hundred mile Colorado River and distribute its water for use in several states.
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Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: O radiant dawn; title: King of the jukeboxes; title: The Hoover Dam story.