This Day in History
25 Dec 1046
Pope Clemens VI crowns Henry III as Holy Roman Emperor
25 Dec 1048
Parliament of Worms Emperor Henry III names his cousin Count Bruno van Egisheim-Dagsburg as Pope Leo IX
25 Dec 1066
Duke William of Normandy (William the Conqueror) crowned King of England
25 Dec 1100
Boudouin I of Boulogne crowned King of Jerusalem
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Bing Crosby introduces White Christmas to the world
White Christmas written by the formidable composer and lyricist Irving Berlin receives its world premiere on this day in 1941 on Bing Crosby...
Christ is born?
Although most Christians celebrate December 25 as the birthday of Jesus Christ few in the first two Christian centuries claimed any knowledge of the exact day ...
The Christmas Truce
Just after midnight on Christmas morning the majority of German troops engaged in World War I cease firing their guns and artillery and commence to sing Christ...
Enemies exchange Christmas greetings
On and around Christmas Day 1914 the sounds of rifles firing and shells exploding fade in a number of places along the Western Front in favor of holiday celebr...
Linebacker II resumes after Christmas pause
After a 36-hour respite for Christmas the U.S. resumes Operation Linebacker II. The extensive bombing campaign was resumed because according to U.S. official...
Harrison Salisbury reports on damage caused by U.S. bombing
Harrison Salisbury assistant managing editor of the New York Times files a report from Hanoi chronicling the damage to civilian areas in North Vietnam by the ...
Katie Hnida is first woman to play in Division I football game
On this day in 2002 the University of New Mexico junior place-kicker Katie Hnida attempts to kick an extra point in a game against UCLA in the Las Vegas Bowl. ...
Washington leads troops on raid at Trenton, New Jersey
On this night in 1776 future resident General George Washington leads his small and bedraggled army in a daring raid on British and Hessian troops at Trenton ...
John Wesley Hardin kills over a card game
Angered over a card game dispute 16-year-old John Wesley Hardin reveals a singular lack of Christmas spirit by shooting James Bradley dead in the street.Althou...
Jimmy Buffett departs on a cruise that inspires A Pirate Looks at Fifty
One of only a handful of writers to top both the fiction and nonfiction bestseller lists singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett departs with his family on ...
To Kill a Mockingbird debuts
On this day in 1962 To Kill a Mockingbird a film based on the 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Harper Lee opens in theaters. The Great D...
Christmas party in China turns deadly
A Christmas party at an unlicensed disco is the site of a tragic fire that kills more than 300 people in Luoyang China on this day in 2000. It was the deadlie...
Young JonBenet Ramsey is murdered
Six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey is killed in her Boulder Colorado home. John and Patsy Ramsey her parents called police at 552 the following morning to report...
Gorbachev resigns as president of the USSR
Mikhail Gorbachev announces that he is resigning as president of the Soviet Union. In truth there was not much of a Soviet Union from which to resignj...
Christmas for Union soldier Elisha Hunt Rhodes
On this day in 1862 Lieutenant Elisha Hunt Rhodes of the Second Rhode Island spends Christmas Day in camp singing with other officers and writing in his diary...
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