December 24
Today is the 359th day of 2016, there are seven days left in the year.
1524 - Portuguese navigator Vasco de Gama died in Cochin, India.
1814 - The War of 1812 officially ended as the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Ghent in Belgium.
1818 - "Silent Night" was composed by Franz Joseph Gruber.
1851 - Fire devastated the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., destroying about 35,000 volumes.
1865 - The Ku Klux Klan was founded as a private social club by several Confederate Army veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee.
1871 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida premiered in Cairo, Egypt at the opening of the Suez Canal.
1906 - Canadian physicist Reginald A. Fessenden became the first person to broadcast a music program over radio, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts.
1914 - During World War I, impromptu Christmas truces began to take hold along parts of the Western Front between British and German soldiers.
1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces during World War II.
1992 - President George H.W. Bush pardoned former Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger and five others in the Iran-Contra scandal.
2002 - Laci Peterson was reported missing from her Modesto, California home by her husband, Scott, who was later convicted of murdering her and their unborn son.
2009 - The Senate passed sweeping health care legislation, 60-39, in the chamber's first Christmas Eve vote since 1895.
2009 - A woman jumped barriers in St. Peter's Basilica and knocked down Pope Benedict XVI as he was walking down the main aisle to begin Christmas Eve Mass; the pope was unhurt.
Birthdays
25 - Louis Tomlinson (singer)
26 - Brittany Fogarty (reality star)
30 - Ana Brenda Contreras (actress)
32 - Austin Stowell (actor)
39 - Michael Raymond-James (actor)
42 - Ryan Seacrest (TV/radio host)
43 - Stephenie Meyer (author)
45 - Ricky Martin (singer)
50 - Diedrich Bader (actor)
56 - Carol Vorderman (game show host)
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Today in Sports History - December 24
1961 - The Houston Oilers defeated the San Diego Chargers 10-3 in the AFL championship game.
1967 - Joe Namath of the New York Jets became the first professional football quarterback to throw for 4,000 yards in a season.
1982 - Chaminade, a school with a student-body of 850 students, upsets #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic.
2000 - Thirty-six minutes after the end of the game, both the New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins were called back to the playing field. The teams had to play the final three seconds of the game which the Dolphins had won 27-24. The end result did not change.
Today is the 359th day of 2016, there are seven days left in the year.
1524 - Portuguese navigator Vasco de Gama died in Cochin, India.
1814 - The War of 1812 officially ended as the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Ghent in Belgium.
1818 - "Silent Night" was composed by Franz Joseph Gruber.
1851 - Fire devastated the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., destroying about 35,000 volumes.
1865 - The Ku Klux Klan was founded as a private social club by several Confederate Army veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee.
1871 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida premiered in Cairo, Egypt at the opening of the Suez Canal.
1906 - Canadian physicist Reginald A. Fessenden became the first person to broadcast a music program over radio, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts.
1914 - During World War I, impromptu Christmas truces began to take hold along parts of the Western Front between British and German soldiers.
1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces during World War II.
1992 - President George H.W. Bush pardoned former Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger and five others in the Iran-Contra scandal.
2002 - Laci Peterson was reported missing from her Modesto, California home by her husband, Scott, who was later convicted of murdering her and their unborn son.
2009 - The Senate passed sweeping health care legislation, 60-39, in the chamber's first Christmas Eve vote since 1895.
2009 - A woman jumped barriers in St. Peter's Basilica and knocked down Pope Benedict XVI as he was walking down the main aisle to begin Christmas Eve Mass; the pope was unhurt.
Birthdays
25 - Louis Tomlinson (singer)
26 - Brittany Fogarty (reality star)
30 - Ana Brenda Contreras (actress)
32 - Austin Stowell (actor)
39 - Michael Raymond-James (actor)
42 - Ryan Seacrest (TV/radio host)
43 - Stephenie Meyer (author)
45 - Ricky Martin (singer)
50 - Diedrich Bader (actor)
56 - Carol Vorderman (game show host)
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Today in Sports History - December 24
1961 - The Houston Oilers defeated the San Diego Chargers 10-3 in the AFL championship game.
1967 - Joe Namath of the New York Jets became the first professional football quarterback to throw for 4,000 yards in a season.
1982 - Chaminade, a school with a student-body of 850 students, upsets #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic.
2000 - Thirty-six minutes after the end of the game, both the New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins were called back to the playing field. The teams had to play the final three seconds of the game which the Dolphins had won 27-24. The end result did not change.
