12-24-2005, 04:44 AM
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December 24th
1491 ~ Birthday of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits.
1818 ~ Silent Night composed by Franz Xaver Gruber.
1818 ~ Birthday of James Prescott Joule, Physicist.
1910 ~ Birthday of Fritz Leiber, Science Fiction writer.
1914 ~ World War I: The Christmas truce begins.
1914 ~ Death of John Muir, Naturalist.
1957 ~ Birthday of Hamid Karzai, first democratically elected President of Afghanistan.
1962 ~ The last of the Bay of Pigs prisoners freed.
1968 ~ The Apollo 8 crew becomes the first manned space mission to orbit the Moon.
1974 ~ Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin, Australia.
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