blue water massey
Well-known Member
Dec. 25
0001 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus
0337 Earliest possible date that Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
0352 1st definite date Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
1492 Columbus' ship Santa Maria docks at Dominican Republic
1651 Massachusetts Court ordered a fine (5 shillings) for "observing any such day as Christmas"
1776 Washington crosses Delaware & surprises & defeats 1,400 Hessians
1831 Louisiana & Arkansas are 1st states to observe Christmas as holiday
1837 Battle of Okeechobee-US forces defeat Seminole Indians
1848 New Haven Railroad opens
1868 President Andrew Johnson grants an unconditional pardon to all Confederate veterans
1896 "Stars & Stripes Forever" written by John Philip Sousa
1926 Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan (1926-1989)
1941 Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
1941 Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi/Kagu back in Kure, Japan
1942 British Colonel S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarters
1942 Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad
1946 Constitution accepted in Taiwan
1947 Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)
1959 Sony brings transistor TV 8-301 to the market
1989 Japanese scientist achieves -271.8?C, coldest temp ever recorded
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigned as President of USSR
0001 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus
0337 Earliest possible date that Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
0352 1st definite date Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
1492 Columbus' ship Santa Maria docks at Dominican Republic
1651 Massachusetts Court ordered a fine (5 shillings) for "observing any such day as Christmas"
1776 Washington crosses Delaware & surprises & defeats 1,400 Hessians
1831 Louisiana & Arkansas are 1st states to observe Christmas as holiday
1837 Battle of Okeechobee-US forces defeat Seminole Indians
1848 New Haven Railroad opens
1868 President Andrew Johnson grants an unconditional pardon to all Confederate veterans
1896 "Stars & Stripes Forever" written by John Philip Sousa
1926 Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan (1926-1989)
1941 Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
1941 Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi/Kagu back in Kure, Japan
1942 British Colonel S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarters
1942 Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad
1946 Constitution accepted in Taiwan
1947 Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)
1959 Sony brings transistor TV 8-301 to the market
1989 Japanese scientist achieves -271.8?C, coldest temp ever recorded
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigned as President of USSR
