To all my dear friends and readers of this blog, I hope you and yours have a wonderful Christmas today with your loved ones and many more to share year after year. In addition may God bless you and yours along with this great country in which we are fortunate enough to live and prosper in the upcoming New Year 2008 and again many more, be the good Lord willing.May we all take a moment to say a prayer or two for our gallant troops around the world away from their beloved families on this day and many others while making America safe for us today to celebrate with our loved ones whilst they sacrifice.
May the lord bless them all and bring them home safely as soon as humanly possible.
Merry Christmas !!!
Some other noteworthy events that have taken place on this day in history, besides of coarse the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ as most believe:
1075: Pope Gregory VII kidnapped while saying Mass
1223: St. Francis of Assisi assembled one of the first Nativity scenes, in Greccio, Italy
1776: General George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, New Jersey
1818: "Silent Night" was performed for the first time, at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorff, Austria: composed by organist Franz Gruber and Father Joseph Mohr
1896: John Philip Sousa wrote the melody to a song that had haunted him for days. On Christmas Day, that melody was finally titled, "The Stars and Stripes Forever."
1939: The Charles Dickens classic, "A Christmas Carol", was read by Lionel Barrymore on "The Campbell Playhouse" on CBS radio. The reading of the tale became an annual radio event for years to come
1988: Christmas services were held in Lockerbie, Scotland, where residents mourned the loss of 270 lives in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 with relatives of the victims
1989: Former baseball manager Billy Martin died in a traffic accident in Fenton, New York
1995: Singer Dean Martin died at his Beverly Hills home at age 78
1995: An ailing Pope John Paul the Second cut short his traditional Christmas greetings, telling crowds he was fighting to regain his health
1223: St. Francis of Assisi assembled one of the first Nativity scenes, in Greccio, Italy
1776: General George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, New Jersey
1818: "Silent Night" was performed for the first time, at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorff, Austria: composed by organist Franz Gruber and Father Joseph Mohr
1896: John Philip Sousa wrote the melody to a song that had haunted him for days. On Christmas Day, that melody was finally titled, "The Stars and Stripes Forever."
1939: The Charles Dickens classic, "A Christmas Carol", was read by Lionel Barrymore on "The Campbell Playhouse" on CBS radio. The reading of the tale became an annual radio event for years to come
1988: Christmas services were held in Lockerbie, Scotland, where residents mourned the loss of 270 lives in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 with relatives of the victims
1989: Former baseball manager Billy Martin died in a traffic accident in Fenton, New York
1995: Singer Dean Martin died at his Beverly Hills home at age 78
1995: An ailing Pope John Paul the Second cut short his traditional Christmas greetings, telling crowds he was fighting to regain his health
Some noteworthy Christmas Links
A collection of recent Christmas themed political cartoons
- Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus
(Newseum - The Interactive Museum of News) - The Real Story of Christmas
The History Channel Takes You Thru Christmas' Past and Present - Legends of Christmas
Some Christmas Traditions from The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library - An American Christmas
- Also from the Presidential Library of Herbert Hoover Displays Christmas Trees
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