Saturday, December 25, 2021

Non-Christmasy Things that Happened on Christmas Day

 


December 25th is known for many things, but did you know that is also known for the very first Ovariotomy 1701.

December 25th is also the day that a temple to the sun god Sol Invictus was dedicated in Rome by Emperor Aurelian in 274 AD.

December 25th is also the day that England adopted the Julian calendar in 597 AD.

December 25th is also the day that Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in the year 800.

December 25th is also the day that Hungary became a country in 1000 AD.

December 25th is also the day that William the Conqueror was crowned King of England in 1066.

December 25th is also the day of the Great Christmas Flood disasters in 1717 in Holland, Germany and Scandinavia.

December 25th is also the day that Washington crossed the Delaware in 1776.

December 25th is also the day of the Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy in 1826.

The KKK was formed at Christmas time in Pulaski TN in 1865.

December 25th is also the day that Confederate soldiers were pardoned by President Andrew Johnson in 1868.

December 25th is also the day of the Taeyongak Hotel fire in Seoul Korea in 1971 killing 166 people.

December 25th is also the day that Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as leader of the Soviet Union in 1991.

December 25th is also the day that Dean Martin died in 1996.

December 25th is also the day the killing of JonBenet Ramsey in 1996.

 December 25th is also the day of the Christmas massacres in Uganda in 2008. The massacres were the fifth deadliest act of terrorism in world history.

December 25th is also the day of the Covina Massacre. Covina is a suburb of LA, where recently divorced Bruce Pardo, dressed as Santa showed up at his ex-wife's home and shot 25 people, after which he killed himself.

December 25th is also the day of the Carnation Massacre in 2007 in Carnation, Washington where Michele Anderson and her boyfriend Joseph McEnroe drove to her parent’s home and killed 6 members of her family. 

December 25th is also the day of the Lawson Family Massacre which happened on this day in 1929 in Germanton NC when Charlie Lawson murdered his wife and six of his seven children.

December 25th is also the day that Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was executed alongside his wide Elena in 1989

December 25th is also the day that a gingerbread monolith appeared in San Francisco in 2020.

December 25 is also a day when mysterious lights and UFO's appear most often, according to the CBC. See https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/santa-ufo-christmas-reports-canada-1.5850393

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