History for December 25 - On-This-Day.com
Sir Isaac Newton 1642, Clara Barton 1821, Humphrey Bogart 1899
Cab (Cabell) Calloway III 1907, Anwar Sadat (Egypt) 1918, Rod Serling 1924
Gary Sandy 1945 - Actor ("WKRP In Cincinnati"), Jimmy Buffett 1946 - Singer, Barbara Mandrell 1948
0800 - Charlemagne was crowned first Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope Leo III.
1223 - St. Francis of Assisi assembled one of the first Nativity scenes, in Greccio, Italy.
1776 - Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, NJ.
1868 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion that resulted in the Civil War.
1896 - John Philip Sousa finally titled the melody "The Stars and Stripes Forever."
1914 - During World War I, British and German troops observed an unofficial truce and even playing football together on the Western Front.
1926 - Hirohito became the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Emperor Taisho.
1946 - W.C. Fields died at the age of 66.
1979 - The USSR invaded Afghanistan in a bid to halt civil war and protect USSR interests.
1989 - Former baseball player and manager Billy Martin died in a truck crash in Fenton, NY.
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