Historical Events
1818 - 1st known Christmas carol ("Silent Night, Holy Night" - "Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht) sung (Austria)
1914 - Legendary "Christmas Truce" takes place on the battlefields of WWI between British and German troops. Instead of fighting, soldiers exchange gifts and play football.
1934 - Four centuries for SA as they make 7-644 v Qld before 6,180
1942 - British Col S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarter
1976 - Egyptian SS Patria sinks in Red Sea, about 100 killed
1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigns as President of USSR in a televised speech
Famous Birthdays
1250 - John IV Laskaris, Byzantine Emperor (d. circa 1305)
1771 - Dorothy Wordsworth
1893 - Bert Bertram, actor (How to Steal a Million)
1923 - Louis Lane, Eagle Pass Texas, conductor (Oere Orch 1968-73)
1957 - Chris Kamara, English footballer and commentator
1970 - Azhar Saeed, UAE cricketer (opening batsman 1996 World Cup)
Famous Deaths
1933 - Francesc Macià, Catalonian statesman (b. 1859)
1951 - Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb
1954 - Johnny Ace, Memphis rhythm and blues singer, accidentally shoots himself in the head at 25
1961 - Otto Loewi, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
1979 - Jordi Bonet, Quebec muralist and sculptor (b. 1932)
2000 - Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (b. 1908)
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