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Today in History ~ December 25
Events0001 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus
0336 - 1st recorded celebration of Christmas on Dec. 25 took place in Rome [H]
0597 England adopts Julian calendar
0795 Adrian I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0800 Leo III crowns Charles the Great, Roman emperor
0875 Charles, the Bare, crowned emperor of Rome
0969 Johannes I Tzimisces, crowned emperor of Byzantium
1066 - William the Conqueror was crowned king of England
1223 St Francis of Assisi assembles 1st Nativity scene (Greccio, Italy)
1492 Columbus' ship Santa Maria docks at Dominican Republic
1621 Gov William Bradford forbids game playing on this day
1640 Pierre de Fermat writes to Marin Mersenne about Fermat's church thesis
1745 Treaty of Dresden gives much of Silesia to the Prussians
1758 - Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return
1760 Juptier Hammon, NY slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Throught"
1775 Pope Pius VI encyclical on the problems of the pontificate
1776 Washington crosses Delaware & surprises & defeats 1,400 Hessians [H]
1818 "Silent Night," by Franz Joseph Gruber & Joseph Mohr sung for 1st time
1818 1st US performance of Handel's Messiah, Boston
1837 Battle of Okeechobee-US forces defeat Seminole Indians
1843 1st theatre matinee (Olympic Theatre, NYC)
1848 New Haven Railroad opens
1862 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC
1868 - Despite bitter opposition Pres Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion (the Civil War)
1875 Lambs Club in NY forms
1888 1st indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia
1894 1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, U of Chicago
1922 (-Dec 26) Lenin dictates his "Political testament"
1926 Hirohito became emperor of Japan (1926-1989)
1930 1st US bobsled run open to public (Lake Placid, NY)
1931 - NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio
1933 Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor
1936 Belgian bishops condemn fascism & communism
1939 - Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer
1941 - Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
1946 Constitution accepted in Taiwan
1947 Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)
1950 Cleve Browns beat LA Rams 30-28 in NFL championship game
1953 Avalanche of lava, mud & snow sweeps RR bridge & passenger train away, killing 150. (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand)
1954 WSFA TV channel 12 in Montgomery, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 Cleveland Browns win NFL championship
1955 Pope Pius XII encyclical on sacred music & popular music
1957 Ed Gein found insane of murder
1959 A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas
1963 - Walt Disney's "The Sword In The Stone" is released
1964 "Goldfinger" premiers in US
1967 Paul McCartney & Jane Asher get engaged
1968 - Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting moon
1969 5 Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor
1971 Longest NFL game to date (82m40s) as Dolphins beat Chiefs 27-24
1971 Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) form Jesse Jackson
1971 Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul, South Korea.
1973 Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799,405 miles)
1974 Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin, Australia.
1977 - Israeli PM Menachem Begin met in Egypt with Egyptian Pres Sadat
1983 - 1st live telecast of Christmas Parade
1984 NBA's Bernard King scores 60 points
1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who escaped 2 days earlier, recaptured
1989 Japanese scientist achieve -271.8øC, coldest temp ever recorded
1990 "Godfather III" premiers
Birthdays Today
1642 - Sir Isaac Newton (mathematician, apple fancier: "What goes up must come down. Ouch!") in Grantham England
1752 - Mithra,
1821 - Clara Barton, American Red Cross founder in Oxford Mass
1865 - Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army general
1876 - Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan
1881 - Joseph McCarthy, Yank manager
1883 - Maurice Utrillo, French painter
1887 - Conrad Hilton (hotel magnate)
1892 - Dame Rebecca West, author critic feminist (or 12-21-81)
1899 - Humphrey Bogart (Academy Award-winning actor: The African Queen [1951]; The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca (Bogie's character never says "Play it again, Sam." He says: "You played it for her, you can play it for me. Play it!", while Ingrid Bergman says "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'".) Here's looking at you kid
1899 - Raphael Soyer, painter
1904 - Gerhard Herzberg, Can physicist (molecular structure) (Nobel 1971)
1906 - Lord Grade,
1907 - Cab (Cabell) Calloway ('Highness of Hi-De-Ho': bandleader, singer: Minnie the Moocher, Blues in the Night; films: Stormy Weather, St. Louis Blues; The Cotton Club Comes to the Ritz)
1909 - Mike Mazurki, actor wrestler
1914 - Tony Martin (Alvin Morris) (singer: It's a Blue World, To Each His Own, Kiss of Fire, Stranger in Paradise, Here; actor: Casbah, Hit the Deck; married to dancer Cyd Charisse)
1915 - Pete Rugolo (bandleader, arranger: Stan Kenton; scored TV's The Fugitive)
1918 - Anwar el-Sadat (Egyptian president; Nobel Peace Prize winner with Israel's Menachim Begin [1978])
1924 - Rod Serling (scriptwriter: The Twilight Zone, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Planet of the Apes, Seven Days in May)
1932 - Little Richard (Penniman) (singer: Good Golly Miss Molly, Tutti-Frutti, Long Tall Sally, Lucille, Keep A Knockin')
1937 - O'Kelly Isley (singer: Grammy Award-winning group: The Isley Brothers: It's Your Thing [1969]; Shout, Twist and Shout, That Lady, This Old Heart of Mine)
1940 - Phil Spector, rock producer
1945 - Gary Sandy, Actor
1945 - Ken Stabler ('The Snake': football: Oakland Raiders quarterback: Super Bowl XI)
1946 - Jimmy Buffett (songwriter, singer: Come Monday, Margaritaville, Changes in Latitudes - Changes in Attitudes; main 'Parrot Head')
1946 - Larry Csonka (Pro Football Hall of Famer: Miami Dolphins running back: Super Bowl VI, VII, VIII)
1948 - Barbara Mandrell (CMA Entertainer of the Year [1980, 1981], Female Vocalist of the Year [1979]; Standing Room Only, I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool, Sleeping Single in a Double Bed, If Loving You Is Wrong)
1949 - Sissy (Mary) Spacek (Academy Award-winning actress: Coal Miner's Daughter [1980]; Missing, The River, Carrie, The Migrants)
1950 - Barry Pearson (football)
1950 - Manny Trillo (baseball: Philadelphia Phillies)
1953 - Dave Wasick (football)
1954 - Annie Lennox, Singer (Eurithemics)
1958 - Ricky Henderson (baseball: Oakland Athletics outfielder: Baseball Writers' award, American League [1990]; NY Yankees)
Famous deaths
795 Adrian I Italian Pope (772-95), dies
820 Leo V de Armeni, Byzantine gen/Emperor (813-20), murdered
1683 Kara Moestafa Turks grand vizer (1676-83), executed
1761 Empress Elizabeth dies
1895 Raul d'avila Pompeia Brazilians writer (Liederen without metre), dies
1899 Raphael Soyer artist (Depression scenes in NYC)
1926 Joshihito Emperor of Japan (1912-26), dies
1943 Ilona Durigo Hungarian singer, dies
1951 Harry T Moore Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb
1957 Frederick Law Olmsted US architect (Central Park), dies at 87
1961 Rheinhold Rudenberg inventor of electron microscope dies
1964 Cheerio Meredith actress (One Happy Family), dies at 74
1977 Charlie Chaplin actor (Modern Times), dies in Switzerland at 88
1979 Joan Blondell actress (Real McCoys), dies at 70
Lee Bowman actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover), dies at 64
1980 Louis Neefs Belgian singer, dies
1983 Joan Miro Spanish surrealist, dies at his home in Majorca at 90
1985 George Rhodes orch leader (Sammy Davis Jr Show), dies at 66
1989 Barrel Regtien student leader, dies
1989 Billy Martin NY Yankee manager, killed in a car accident at 61
1989 Nicolea Ceausescu dictator of Romania, & his wife, are executed
1989 Ton Regtien student leader, dies
1991 Orane Demazis French actress (Marius, Fanny et C‚sar), dies
1992 Garrison H Davidson US lt-gen commandant (West Point), dies
1992 Helen BM Fennell Joseph English/South African anti-apartheid, dies
1992 Monica Dickens English/US journalist/author, dies
1992 Ted Croker RAF-pilot/sect English soccer team (sponsoring), dies
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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