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Dec 25, 1914: Enemies Exchange Christmas Greetings

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

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 celebrations in the trenches and gestures of goodwill between enemies. Starting on…

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Dec 25, 2000: Christmas Party in China Turns Deadly

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

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 deadliest fire in China since a December 1994 fire…

Tagged with: 2000, China, Christmas, December 25, Holiday, National Public Radio, Nina Totenberg, Opinions, This Day in History, This Day In History, United States Department of Defense, Xinjiang
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Dec 25, 1991: Gorbachev Resigns as President of the USSR

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

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 resign—just four days earlier, 11 of the former Soviet republics had established the Commonwealth…

Tagged with: 1991, Boris Yeltsin, Cold War, Commonwealth of Independent States, December 25, Mikhail Gorbachev, Russia, Russian Federation, Russians, Soviet Union, This Day in History, This Day In History
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Dec 25, 1996: Young JonBenet Ramsey is Murdered

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey is killed in her Boulder, Colorado, home. John and Patsy Ramsey, her parents, called police at 5:52 the following morning to report that their daughter was missing. Although police found a ransom note demanding $118,000, the money…

Tagged with: 1996, Beauty contest, Boulder Colorado, Crime, December 25, John Bennett Ramsey, JonBenét Ramsey, Murder, Patsy Ramsey, This Day in History, This Day In History
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Dec 25, 1962: To Kill a Mockingbird Debuts

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

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 Depression-era story of racial injustice and the loss of childhood…

Dec 25, 1941: Bing Crosby Introduces “White Christmas” to the World

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

“White Christmas,” written by the formidable composer and lyricist Irving Berlin receives its world premiere on this day in 1941 on Bing Crosby’s weekly NBC radio program, The Kraft Music Hall. It went on to become one of the most…

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Dec 25, 0007: Christ is Born?

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

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 or year in which he was born. The oldest existing record of a Christmas…