Actor-comedian Dick Van Dyke is 82.

Actor Christopher Plummer is 80.

Music/film producer Lou Adler is 74.

Movie producer Richard Zanuck is 73.

Singer Ted Nugent is 59.

Country singer-musician Randy Owen is 58.

Actress Wendie Malick is 57.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is 54.

Country singer John Anderson is 53.

Actor Steve Buscemi is 50.

Actor-comedian Jamie Foxx is 40.

Rock singer Amy Lee (Evanescence) is 26.

Country singer Taylor Swift is 18.

On Dec. 13, 1769, Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire, received its charter.

In 1862, Union forces suffered a major defeat to the Confederates at the Battle of Fredericksburg.

In 1918, President Wilson arrived in France, becoming the first chief executive to visit Europe while in office.

In 1944, the U.S. cruiser Nashville was badly damaged in a Japanese kamikaze attack that claimed more than 130 lives.

In 1978, the Philadelphia Mint began stamping the Susan B. Anthony dollar.

In 1996, the U.N. Security Council chose Kofi Annan of Ghana to become the U.N's seventh secretary-general.