Section: Not a single day without an event #December25 Holidays Christmas Day, Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus. (International) Constitution Day (Taiwan) Malkh-Festival (Nakh peoples of Chechnya and Ingushetia) Quaid-e-Azams Day (Pakistan) Takanakuy (Chumbivilcas Province, Peru) Events 336 - The first recorded celebration of Christmas on Dec. 25 took place in Rome. 1066 - William the Conqueror was crowned king of England. 1776 - Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, N.J. 1818 - Silent Night was performed for the first time, at the Church of St. Nikolaus in #Oberndorff, Austria. 1821 - Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross, was born in Oxford, Mass. 1868 - President Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional pardon to everyone involved in the Southern rebellion that resulted in the Civil War. 1926 - Hirohito became emperor of Japan, succeeding his father, Emperor Yoshihito. 1977 - Comedian Charlie Chaplin died at age 88. 1989 - Ousted Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were executed. 1989 - Former New York Yankees player and manager Billy Martin, 61, died when the pickup truck he was riding in crashed. 1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on TV to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a Communist superpower that had already gone out of existence. 1995 - Singer Dean Martin died at age 78. 2006 - Soul singer James Brown died at age 73. 2009 - Passengers aboard a Northwest Airlines flight foiled an attempt to blow up the plane as it was landing in Detroit by seizing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian accused of trying to set off explosives in his underwear. Historic #Birthdays Rod Serling 12/25/1924 - 6/28/1975 (American television writer and producer) Cab Calloway 12/25/1907 - 11/18/1994 (American jazz composer, singer and bandleader) Humphrey Bogart 12/25/1899 - 1/14/1957 (American actor) Robert Ripley 12/25/1890 - 5/27/1949 (American newspaper cartoonist; founded Ripleys Believe It or Not!) Conrad Hilton 12/25/1887 - 1/3/1979 (American businessman; founded Hilton Hotels chain) Franz Rosenzweig 12/25/1886 - 12/10/1929 (German-Jewish philosopher) Maurice Utrillo 12/25/1883 - 11/5/1955 (French painter) Louis #Chevrolet 12/25/1878 - 6/6/1941 (French-born American automobile designer) #Clara #Barton 12/25/1821 - 4/12/1912 (Founder of the American Red Cross)
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