Saturday, December 27, 2014

Important Things Happening of Christmas Day

From the Dec. 25, 2014, Yahoo! News "Three other big historical events that happened on Christmas Day" by NCC Staff.

Globally, Christmas Day events include the crowning of Charlemagne and William the Conqueror, a World War I truce and it was when Mikhail Gorbachev left power in the Soviet Union.  Also, actors W.C. Fields and Charlie Chaplin died in this date.

1.  Washington crossing the Delaware River during the American Revolution.(1776)

2.  President Johnson pardoning former Confederates (1868).  I wrote at length about this in yesterday's Saw the Elephant Civil War blog.

3.  First test run of the modern internet (1990)  Various pieces of it existed before 1990, but Christmas Day it was all connected to the first web browser.

--Cooter

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