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• Kaitlin Roig, a teacher at the school, said she implored her students to be quiet.
• "I told them we had to be absolutely quiet. Because I was just so afraid if he did come in, then he would hear us and just start shooting the door. I said we have to be absolutely quiet. And I said there are bad guys out there now and we need to wait for the good guys to come get us out," Roig told ABC News.
• "If they started crying, I would take their face and say, 'It's going to be OK. Show me your smile,'" she said. "They said, 'We want to go home for Christmas. Yes, yeah. I just want to hug my mom.' Things like that, that were just heartbreaking."
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Saturday, Dec. 15, the 350th day of 2012. There are 16 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Dec. 15, 1939, the epic Civil War movie "Gone With the Wind," produced by David O. Selznick and starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, had its world premiere in Atlanta.
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• On this date:
• In 1791, the Bill of Rights went into effect following ratification by Virginia.
• In 1890, Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull and 11 other tribe members were killed in Grand River, S.D., during a confrontation with Indian police.
• In 1938, groundbreaking for the Jefferson Memorial took place in Washington with President Franklin D. Roosevelt taking part in the ceremony.
• In 1944, a single-engine plane carrying bandleader Glenn Miller, a major in the U.S. Army Air Forces, disappeared over the English Channel while en route to Paris. American forces invaded Mindoro Island in the Philippines.
• In 1961, former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death by an Israeli court for crimes against humanity. (Eichmann was hanged 5 1/2 months later.)
• In 1962, the Vail Mountain ski resort in Colorado officially opened. Actor-director Charles Laughton died in Los Angeles at age 63.
• In 1965, two U.S. manned spacecraft, Gemini 6A and Gemini 7, maneuvered to within 10 feet of each other while in orbit.
• In 1971, the Secret Service appointed its first five female special agents.
• In 1972, Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial film "Last Tango in Paris" had its (Continued on page 41)
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