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News: 100 years ago
1903 - The vessels Kanowna and Omrha arrived at Fremantle.

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News: 50 years ago
1953 - René Coty elected President of France.

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Sports: 25 years ago
1978 - The Miami Dolphins lost 17-9 to the Houston Oilers in the NFL Wild Card playoffs.

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News: 10 years ago
1993 - Norman Vincent Peale, author of Power of Positive Thinking dies at 95.

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News: 5 years ago
1998 - Priceline files for IPO Priceline.com, a Web site allowing users to name their own price for airline and hotel reservations, files for an IPO. The company, which had attracted attention for creating a virtual marketplace for travelers, said it would offer $115 million worth of common stock.

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News: 1 year ago

2002 - Entravision Communications Corporation (EVC) announces that it has entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement to acquire the assets of three FM radio stations serving the greater Los Angeles market from Big City Radio (YFM) for $100 million in cash and 3.77 million shares of Entravision's Class A Common Stock.

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December 24th happenings in history!

Births:

1918 - Anwar El Sadat, President of Egypt from 1970-81 was born.

1940 - Paul Tagliabue, NFL commissioner from 1989 - present was born.

1971 - Ricky Martin, singer and actor (General Hospital) was born.

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Deaths:

1524 Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer and viceroy of Cochin India, dies at about 55.

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Discoveries:

1832 - 1st US Negro hospital founded by whites chartered, Savannah, GA.

1935 - National Council of Negro Women forms.

Entertainment:

1956 - "I Love Lucy" Christmas show airs, never put in syndication.

1964 - Shooting begins on "The Cage", the pilot for Star Trek.

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Inventions:

1889 - Daniel Stover & William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake.

1893 - Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor.

1912 - Irving Fisher patents archiving system with index cards.

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News:

0640 - John IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope.

1724 - Benjamin Franklin arrives in London.

1818 - "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; sung for 1st time the next day.

1851 - Fire devastates Library of Congress in Washington, destroys 35,000 volumes.

1865 - Several Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, TN.

1874 - Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875.

1914 - German plane drops bombs on Dover England

1942 - Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja & Morozowsk.

1943 - FDR appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces.

1946 - US General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor nazis" amnesty.

1948 - 1st US house completely sunheated is occupied (Dover MA).

1948 - Greek government disbands due to state of war, press censorship.

1951 - United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via the UN.

1954 - Laos gains its independence.

1966 - Luna 13 lands on Moon.

1968 - Apollo 8 astronauts' Christmas reading (Book of Genesis) while orbiting Moon.

1970 - 9 Jews are convicted in Leningrad for hijacking a plane.

1980 - Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds.

1989 - Panamá's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at the Vatican embassy.

1990 - Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target.

1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Soviet Union.

1992 - President Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger of Iran-contra affair.

1997 - 1st time a Channukah candle is officially lit in Vatican City.

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Religion:

1784 - Methodism was officially organized in the newlyÂindependent United States of America, in Baltimore. Francis Asbury was consecrated the first Methodist bishop, a few days later.

1818 - In St. Nicholas Church at Oberndorf, Austria, church organist Franz Gruber, 31, composed a melody on guitar for the poem, "Stille Nacht," written earlier by pastor Joseph Mohr, 26. This evening the world heard "Silent Night" sung for the very first time.

1871 - The Northside Tabernacle in Chicago was dedicated by evangelist Dwight L. Moody. It became the original structure of what is today the Moody Memorial Church.

1943 - German theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: 'Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.'

1951 - "Amahl and the Night Visitors," a Christmas musical, had its TV debut. Written by composer Gian Carlo Menotti, it was the first musical to be broadcast over television.

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Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987

Compiled by Ramesh C. Reddy

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