18 Unusual Historical Events That Happened During Christmas
Researched by Dr Abe V Rotor
- Christmas Day, 1990, The Internet Gets Its First Test Run
- Washington Crosses the Delaware River in 1776
- WWI Christmas Truce Soccer Games
- USSR Invades Afghanistan in 1979
- Isaac Newton Was Born on Christmas Day
- Charlie Chaplin Passes Away
- Apollo 8 Reaches the Moon’s Orbit (Internet PHOTO)
- Mikhail Gorbachev Resigns as Soviet President
- The Song ‘Silent Night’ Is First Performed in Public
- President Andrew Johnson Pardons All Confederate Soldiers
- Charlemagne Crowned Holy Roman Emperor, year 800.
- William the Conqueror Crowned King of England, 1066
- World War I Soldiers Hold Christmas Truce 1914
- Andrew Johnson Pardons All Confederate Soldiers, 1868
- Hirohito Becomes Emperor of Japan, 1926
- President Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu of Romania Executed, 1989
- Ford Model T Unveiled, 1913
- John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, former presidents of the US, Die, 1826
On Christmas Eve 1914, in the dank, muddy trenches on the Western Front of the first world war, a remarkable thing happened. It came to be called the Christmas Truce. And it remains one of the most storied and strangest moments of the Great War—or of any war in history. (Internet)
References" JM Braude, Speaker's Encyclopedia of Humor; Prochnow HY and HV Prochnow Jr, Jokes, Quotes and One-liners for Public Speakers; Wikipedia; Internet
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