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Events from History on December 25

1000 : Monarch Istv n crowned king of Hungary
1046 : Pope Clemens VI crowns Henry III RC-German emperor
1048 : Bruno van Egisheim/Dagsburg as Pope Leo IX
1048 : Parliament of Worms: Emperor Henry III names his cousin count
1066 : William the Conqueror, crowned king of England
1100 : Boudouin I of Boulogne crowned king of Jerusalem
1101 : Henry I of Limburg becomes duke of Neth-Lutherans
1121 : Norbertus van Xanten finds order of the Norbertijnen
1130 : Anti-pope Anacletus II crowns Roger II the Norman, king of Sicily
1223 : St Francis of Assisi assembles 1st Nativity scene (Greccio, Italy)
1492 : Columbus' ship Santa Maria docks at Dominican Republic
1522 : Turkish troops occupy Rhodos
1582 : Zealand/Brabant adopts Gregorian calendar, yesterday was Dec 14th
1613 : Johan Sigismund of Brandenburg becomes protestant
1621 : Gov William Bradford of Plymouth forbids game playing on Christmas
1640 : Pierre de Fermat writes to Marin Mersenne about Fermat's church thesis
1641 : Emperor Ferdinand III makes appointments with Sweden & France
1651 : "observing any such day as Christmas"
1651 : Massachusetts General Court ordered a fine (five shillings) for
1683 : English Whig-leader duke of Monmouth flees to Holland
1688 : English king James II lands in Ambleteuse, France
1688 : Lord Delamere sides with King James II
1717 : Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces, 1000s killed
1741 : Astronomer Anders Celcius introduces Centigrade temperature scale
1745 : Prussia/Austria signs Treaty of Dresden
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
1818 : 1st known Christmas carol ("Silent Night, Holy Night") sung (Austria)
1818 : Handel's Messiah, US premieres in Boston
1830 : Hector Berlioz's "Symphony Fantastic," premieres
1831 : Louisiana & Arkansas are 1st states to observe Christmas as holiday
1832 : Charles Darwins celebrates Christmas in St Martin at Cape Receiver
1833 : Charles Darwins celebrates Christmas in Port Desire, Patagonia
1834 : Charles Darwins celebrates Christmas on Beagle at Tres Montes, Chile
1835 : Charles Darwins company celebrates Christmas in Pahia, New Zealand
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 A Johnson grants unconditional pardon
1868 : to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (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
1894 : defeats Stanford 24-4 at Palo Alto, CA in football
1896 : "Stars & Stripes Forever" written by John Philip Sousa
1899 : Farmers send/guide belegerd Ladysmith Kerstpudding/desire in grenade
1900 : Arthur Schnitzlers "Leutnant Gustl" forbidden in Germany
1901 : Battle at Tweefontein Orange-Free state: Boers surprise attack Brits
1902 : Clyde Fitch' "Girl with Green Eyes," premieres in NYC
1905 : V Herbert/H Blossoms musical "Mlle Modiste," premieres in NYC
1908 : Jack Johnson KO Tommy Burns & becomes 1st black heavyweight champ
1911 : Edward Knoblock's "Kismet," premieres in NYC
1914 : Legendary/unofficial "Christmas Truce" takes place (Brits & Germans)
1915 : Irving Berlin & Harry B Smith's musical premieres in NYC
1917 : "Why Marry," 1st drama to win Pulitzer Prize, premieres in NYC
1917 : Hirsch/Harbach's musical "Going Up," premieres in NYC
1922 : -Dec 26] Lenin dictates his "Political testament"
1923 : Imperial Theater opens at 249 W 45th St NYC
1926 : Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan (1926-1989)
1928 : NSW (v Vic) go from 8-74 to 9-113 to be 9-367 at stumps
1929 : Grimmett takes 6-146 for SA, Queensland all out 380 Crowd 5,390
1930 : 1st US bobsled run open to public (Lake Placid, NY)
1930 : Mt Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid, NY opens
1930 : Slinger Nitschke scores 142 SA v Qld at Adelaide before 5,422
1930 : Tasmania all out 280, WI 2-139 at Hobart Crowd 2,500
1931 : Albert Lonergan scores 137 SA v Qld at Adelaide before 5,697
1931 : Fleetwood-Smith takes 5-69 Victoria v Tas at Hobart
1931 : NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio
1932 : During King George V Christmas dinner speech, his chair collapes
1933 : Another Christmas Day five-wicket haul by Clarrie Grimmett
1933 : Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor
1933 : Stan Smith takes 8-33 for Victoria v Tasmania at Hobart
1934 : Four centuries for SA as they make 7-644 v Qld before 6,180
1934 : Samson Raphaelson's "Accent on Youth," premieres in NYC
1936 : Belgian bishops condemn fascism & communism
1936 : Ron Hamence scores 104 for SA v Queensland before 4,865
1937 : Arturo Toscanini conducts 1st Symphony of the Air over NBC Radio
1937 : Queensland all out for 93 v SA in front of 10,436
1938 : George Cukor announces Vivien Leigh will play Scarlett O'Hara
1939 : Grimmett & Ward rip through Qld except Bill Brown (156)
1939 : Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer
1940 : Bradman out 1st ball for SA v Victoria before 6213
1940 : Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Harts "Pal Joey," premieres in NYC
1941 : Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
1941 : Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi/Kagu back in Kure, Japan
1942 : Admiral Dalans murderer of Bosinier de la Chapelle, sentenced to death
1942 : British Col S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarter
1942 : Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad
1946 : Constitution accepted in Taiwan
1947 : Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)
1950 : Coronation Stone, taken from Scone in Scotland by Edward I in 1296,
1950 : Dick Tracy marries Tess Truehart
1950 : stolen from Westminster Abbey & smuggled back to Scotland
1953 : Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand)
1954 : WSFA TV channel 12 in Montgomery, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 : Pope Pius XII encyclical on sacred music & popular music
1957 : Ed Gein found insane of murder
1958 : Alan Freed's Christmas Rock & Roll Spectacular opens
1959 : A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas
1959 : Richard Starkey receives his 1st drum set
1959 : Sony brings transistor TV 8-301 to the market
1962 : USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 : Walt Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" is released
1964 : "Goldfinger" premieres in US
1964 : George Harrison's girlfriend Patti Boyd attacked by female Beatle fans
1967 : Paul McCartney & Jane Asher get engaged
1968 : Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon
1969 : 5 Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor
1969 : India all out for 163 at Madras v Aust, Ashley Mallett 5-91
1971 : Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) form Jesse Jackson
1971 : Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul
1973 : Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799,405 miles)
1974 : Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia
1976 : Egyptian SS Patria sinks in Red Sea, about 100 killed
1976 : Takeo Fukuda becomes Japanese premier
1977 : Israeli PM Menachem Begin meets Egyptian Pres Sadat in Egypt
1979 : USSR airlifts invasionary army to Afghanistan
1982 : Mudassar Nazar scores century, then Imran rips through Indians
1983 : 1st live telecast of Christmas Parade
1987 : Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who escaped 2 days earlier, recaptured
1989 : Japanese scientist achieve -271.8øC, coldest temp ever recorded
1990 : "Godfather III" premieres
1991 : Last day of a washout Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Gujranwala
1991 : Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigned as Pres of USSR
1994 : "Comedy Tonight" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1997 : For 1st time US movie box office receipts pass $6 billion
1997 : Jerry Seinfeld says this is the final season of his TV show

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