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Birthday December 24, 1745 Benjamin Rush, American physician, patriot, humanitarian |
Birthday December 24, 1745 Benjamin Rush is born |
Birthday December 24, 1809 Kit Carson born in Kentucky |
Birthday December 24, 1809 Kit Carson, Western scout |
Birthday December 24, 1818 James Prescott Joule, physicist, discovered conservation of energy |
Birthday December 24, 1822 Matthew Arnold, English poet (Dover Beach) |
Birthday December 24, 1868 Emanuel Lasker, of Germany, world chess champion (1894-21) |
Birthday December 24, 1881 Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish poet (Distant Gardens) (Nobel 1956) |
Birthday December 24, 1905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire |
Birthday December 24, 1907 I.F. Stone, American journalist, told it like it was |
Birthday December 24, 1921 Bill Dudley, NFL halfback (Pittsburgh, Detroit, Washington) |
Birthday December 24, 1922 Ava Gardner, Actress (On the Beach, Night of the Iguana) |
Birthday December 24, 1930 Robert Joffrey, Choreographer |
Birthday December 24, 1959 Madonna, rock singer, Actress (Desperately Seeking Susan) |
Birthday December 24, 1973 Stephenie Meyer, best-selling author of vampire novels, is born |
History December 24, 1524 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama dies in Cochin India |
History December 24, 1582 Vasco daGama Day |
History December 24, 1801 Richard Trevithick introduces his Puffing Devil |
History December 24, 1814 Treaty of Ghent signed ending War of 1812 (This news did not arrive until after Battle of New Orleans) |
History December 24, 1814 War of 1812 ends |
History December 24, 1818 Silent Night composed by Franz Gruber sung next day |
History December 24, 1851 Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash destroys 35 000 volumes |
History December 24, 1851 Fire ravages Library of Congress |
History December 24, 1851 Fire destroys Jefferson library |
History December 24, 1864 Bombardment of Fort Fisher begins |
History December 24, 1865 KKK founded |
History December 24, 1865 Several Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski Tn |
History December 24, 1871 Giuseppe Verdi's `Aida' premiere in Cairo at Suez canal opening |
History December 24, 1906 1st radio program broadcast in Brant Rock Mass |
History December 24, 1906 Reginald A. Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio |
History December 24, 1910 Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250 000 people at Lotta's Fountain |
History December 24, 1918 American soldier John Douglas writes home from post-armistice France |
History December 24, 1920 Enrico Caruso gave his last public performance |
History December 24, 1923 Coolidge lights first national Christmas tree |
History December 24, 1936 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered Berkeley Ca |
History December 24, 1942 French Admiral Jean Darlan is assassinated |
History December 24, 1943 FDR appoints Gen Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces |
History December 24, 1951 Libya gains independence from Italy |
History December 24, 1952 McCarren-Walter Act goes into effect |
History December 24, 1953 Volcanic eruption sweeps away train |
History December 24, 1964 Viet Cong bomb Brinks Hotel |
History December 24, 1966 Luna 13 lands on moon |
History December 24, 1968 Apollo 8 astronauts read Old Testament Book of Genesis passages |
History December 24, 1969 Curt Flood challenges MLB reserve clause |
History December 24, 1970 Walt Disney's "The Aristocats" is released |
History December 24, 1972 Bob Hope gives his last show in Vietnam |
History December 24, 1980 Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds |
History December 24, 1988 Every Rose Has Its Thorn puts Poison atop the charts |
History December 24, 1994 Islamic terrorists hijack a French plane |
History December 24, 1997 Woody Allen marries Soon-Yi Previn |