It happened on Christmas Day

2. In 800, Charlemagne helped restore Pope Leo III to power after a rebellion
had forced him from Rome. In gratitude, the pope crowned Charlemagne
Emperor of the Romans at a Christmas Day Mass.

3. In 1066, William the Conqueror was crowned King of England at Westminster
Abbey on Christmas Day, fulfilling the Norman Conquest of England.

4. On Christmas Day of 1492, off the coast of Hispaniola, Christopher Columbus' ship
the Santa Maria ran aground and was used as target practice in order to impress
the native peoples before sinking into the ocean.

5. Isaac Newton Was Born on Christmas Day. 1642

6. Pope Pius VI,(Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi) was born on Christmas Day 1717.

7. On Christmas Day, 1758, Edmund Halley's prediction of
the return of the comet know known as Halley's Comet
was confirmed.

8. General George Washington crossed the Delaware River during the evening
of December 25th, 1776.

9. The Song ‘Silent Night’ ‘Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht’ in German, is
first performed in public, in the Austrian village of Oberndorf in
1818 at a Midnight Mass in the church of Saint Nicholas.

10. Clara Barton, Oxford Mass, nurse and founder of American Red Cross,
born 1821, December 25

11. Humphrey DeForest Bogart, American actor was born on December 25, 1899

12. In 1914 World War I the soldiers hold Christmas Truce. British and German
regiments along the Western Front reached spontaneous ceasefires on Christmas
Eve and Christmas Day to celebrate the holiday together.

13. Anwar el-Sadat, Egyptian President, born in 1918 , December 25. In 1978 he
won Nobel Peace Prize, making Sadat the first Muslim Nobel laureate.

14. In 1926 Hirohito Becomes Emperor of Japan

15. On Christmas Day, 1941, Japan announced the surrender of the British and
Canadian garrison protecting the port of Hong Kong.

16. Apollo 8 Reaches the Moon’s Orbit, 1968

17. Charlie Chaplin Passes Away. 1977

18. Paula Seling is a Romanian singer born on December 25, 1978

19. USSR Invades Afghanistan in 1979

20. In 1989 in Romania Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu were executed

21. The internet actually got its first test run in 1990, on Christmas Day. It was a
special moment, indeed, when info.cern.ch, the planet’s first web server, was
up and running.

22. Mikhail Gorbachev Resigns as Soviet President, 1991