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What happened in history on this day: December 25?
On December 25 in ...
- 1775 - British Crown Post last day in American colonies.
- 1831 - Louisiana and Arkansas are first US states to observe Christmas as holiday.
- 1837 - Battle of Okeechobee: US forces defeat Seminole Indians.
- 1847 - Lansing is established as the capital of Michigan.
- 1848 - New Haven Railroad opens.
- 1868 - Despite bitter opposition, US President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion (the Civil War).
- 1896 - "Stars and Stripes Forever" written by John Philip Sousa.
- 1899 - In Hemet-San Jacinto, California, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurs.
- 1914 - Germans and Allies across the trenches cease firing and participate in an informal Christmas Truce.
- 1930 - First US bobsled run open to the public (Mount Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid, New York).
- 1931 - New York's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio.
- 1939 - Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer.
- 1950 - The first Disney TV special, One Hour in Wonderland airs on NBC, sponsored by the Coca-Cola Company (cost US$100,000). Walt Disney and several Disney cartoon characters make their TV debut. Walt's daughter Sharon also appears. The show previews portions of the film Alice in Wonderland. About 20 million viewers watch the show.
- 1951 - Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, is killed by a bomb.
- 1953 - The United States returns control of the Amami Islands, north of Okinawa, to Japan.
- 1973 - The ARPANET crashes when a programming bug causes all ARPANET traffic to be routed through the server at Harvard University, causing the server to freeze.
- 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee creates the WorldWideWeb software browser for the NeXT computer, the first Web browser.
- 1990 - The first successful communication between a client and server via the Internet is established.
- 1997 - For first time US movie box office receipts pass US$6 billion.
- 2004 - An historic and unprecedented snowfall occurs over portions of southern Texas during the early morning hours. Daily totals include 1.5 inches at Brownsville, 3.5 inches at McAllen, 4.4 inches at Corpus Christi, and 12.1 inches at Victoria.
- 2007 - An escaped tiger at the San Francisco Zoo kills one person and injures two others.
- 2009 - A Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, tries to ignite powder and liquid explosives on Northwest Airlines plane Flight 253 from Nigeria via Amsterdam as it is preparing to land in Detroit. The man is subdued and the plane lands safely with no injuries.
Births on December 25
- 1821 - Birth of Clara Harlowe Barton in Oxford, Massachusetts, USA; nurse (founder-American Red Cross).
- 1868 - Birth of Eugenie Besserer in Watertown, New York, USA; actress (Jazz Singer).
- 1887 - Birth of John Davidson in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Charlie Chan - Chinese Cat).
- 1891 - Birth of Earle Foxe in Oxford, Ohio, USA; actor (Dance Fools Dance).
- 1893 - Birth of Fred Hillebrand in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Martin Kane).
- 1893 - Birth of Ropert L Ripley in Santa Rosa, California, USA; cartoonist (Ripley's Believe It or Not).
- 1899 - Birth of Humphrey Bogart in New York, New York, USA; actor (Casablanca) (dies 1957).
- 1900 - Birth of Gladys Swarthout in Deepwater, Missouri, USA; mezzo-soprano ("La Gioconda").
- 1900 - Birth of Barton Maclane in Columbia, South Carolina, USA; actor (Outlaws, Perry Mason, Laramie, Disneyland).
- 1902 - Birth of Barton MacLane in Columbia, South Carolina, USA; actor (The Geisha Boy, General Peterson - I Dream of Jeannie).
- 1907 - Birth of Cabell Calloway III in Rochester, New York, USA; bandleader (Minnie the Moocher, Jazzball, Blues Brothers).
- 1908 - Birth of Frank Ferguson in California, USA; actor (Wagons West, Dynamite, My Gal Sal).
- 1908 - Birth of Helen [Marie Jurgens] Twelvetrees in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (State's Attorney, Painted Desert).
- 1909 - Birth of Marguerite Churchill in Kansas City, Missouri, USA; actress (Dracula's Daughter, Big Trail).
- 1913 - Birth of Alvin Morris AKA Tony Martin in San Francisco, California, USA; singer ("It's a Blue World", "To Each").
- 1915 - Birth of Nora Dunfee in Belmont, Ohio, USA; actress (Forrest Gump, Lorenzo's Oil).
- 1918 - Birth of Eddie Safranski in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; orchestra leader (Jonathan Winters Show).
- 1922 - Birth of Kitty Kallen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; singer ("Judge For Yourself").
- 1923 - Birth of Louis Lane in Eagle Pass, Texas, USA; conductor (Oere Orchestra 1968-73).
- 1928 - Birth of Earl Brown in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; actor (Stovall - Operation Petticoat).
- 1932 - Birth of Mabel King in Charleston, South Carolina, USA; actress (Mama - What's Happening?).
- 1934 - Birth of John Ashley in Kansas City, Missouri, USA; actor (Clipper - Straightaway).
- 1937 - Birth of O'Kelly Isley in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; singer (Isley Brothers - "Twist and Shout").
- 1945 - Birth of Gary Sandy in Dayton, Ohio, USA; actor (Andy - WKRP in Cincinnati).
- 1946 - Birth of Jimmy Buffett in Mobile, Alabama, USA; singer/songwriter ("Margaritaville", "Volcano").
- 1947 - Birth of Connie Petracek in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, USA; swimmer (Olympics-1992, 1996).
- 1948 - Birth of Barbara Mandrell in Houston, Texas, USA; singer/TV host (Mandrell Sisters).
- 1949 - Birth of Sissy Spacek in Quitman, Texas, USA; actress (Carrie, Badlands, Coal Miner's Daughter).
- 1954 - Birth of Steve Wariner in Noblesville, Indiana, USA; country singer ("Small Town Girl").
- 1958 - Birth of Rickey Henderson in Chicago, Illinois, USA; baseball player (stolen base king, Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees).
- 1959 - Birth of Michael P Anderson in Plattsburgh, New York, USA; major US Air Force/astronaut (STS 89).
- 1962 - Birth of Dean Cameron in Morrison, Illinois, USA; actor (Herbie - Spencer).
- 1962 - Birth of Mary Ellen Clark in Abington, Pennsylvania, USA; diver (Olympics-2 bronze-1992, 1996).
- 1967 - Birth of Kathleen Franey in Brooklyn, New York, USA; 1.5km runner.
- 1968 - Birth of Jim Dowd in Brick, New Jersey, USA; NHL center (Vancouver Canucks).
- 1968 - Birth of Scott Bullett in Martinsburg, West Virginia, USA; outfielder (Chicago Cubs).
- 1972 - Birth of Fantasia [Tonya Manley] in Detroit, Michigan, USA; dancer/actress (Pump it Up).
- 1976 - Birth of Scott Vermillion in Independence, Missouri; soccer defenceman (Olympics-gold-1996).
Deaths on December 25
- 1946 - Death of W. C. Fields AKA William Claude Dukenfield at age 66 of a stomach hemmorhage; comedic star of film and radio (The Bank Dick, It's A Gift).
- 1951 - Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, is killed by a bomb.
- 1954 - Rhythm and blues recording star Johnny Ace dies offstage during a show in Houston, Texas, by playing and losing at Russian Roulette.
- 1954 - Liberty Hyde Bailey, US botanist (Plantbreeding), dies at age 96.
- 1957 - Frederick Law Olmsted, US architect (Central Park), dies at age 87.
- 1985 - George Rhodes, orchestra leader (Sammy Davis Junior Show), dies at age 66.
- 1989 - Billy Martin, New York Yankees' baseball manager, killed in a car accident at age 61 in Binghamton, New York.
- 1992 - Garrison H Davidson, US Lieutenant-General commandant (West Point), dies.
- 1992 - Monica Dickens, English/US journalist/author, dies at age 77 (born 1915).
- 1995 - Dean Martin, American singer/actor (Return to Me), dies at age 78 (born 1917).
- 1995 - Nikolai [Nicolas Leonidovich] Slonimsky, Russian/American musicologist, dies at age 101 (born 1894).
- 1997 - Death of Denver Pyle at age 77 of lung cancer; actor (Uncle Jesse - The Dukes of Hazzard TV show, The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, The Doris Day Show, Andy Griffith Show).
- 2008 - Eartha Kitt, American sultry singer ("Santa Baby"), dancer and actress (Catwoman in Batman, two Emmy awards) dies in New York at age 81 of colon cancer.
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