Daily Calendar for Sunday, December 24, 2023
Born
- Kit Carson (frontiersman) β
- Eliza Cook (poet) β
- Charles Wakefield Cadman (composer) β
- Juan Ramon Jimenez (poet) β
- Ava Gardner (actress) β
- Mary Higgins Clark (author) β
- Robert Joffrey (dancer) β
- Ricky Martin (singer) β
- Ryan Seacrest (television host) β
- Pepper (Bolivian gray titi monkey) β
Died
- Peter Lawford (actor) β
- Michael Vale (actor) β
- Cheetah (chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s) β
- Charles Durning (actor) β
- Jack Klugman (actor) β
Events
- Treaty of Ghent signed between the U.S. and Great Britain, ending the War of 1812β
- Stille Nacht (Silent Night) first performed, Oberndorf, Austriaβ
- Clement Moore’s βA Visit From St. Nicholasβ likely writtenβ
- The Eggnog Riot began at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New Yorkβ
- First great fire of San Franciscoβ
- Two-thirds of the collection of the Library of Congress (35,000 volumes) and a portion of the Capitol were destroyed by fireβ
- Canadian-born Reginald A. Fessenden sent the first extended radio broadcast from Brant Rock, Massachusettsβ
- O Holy Night was played on the world’s first radio program broadcast, from Brant Rock, Massachusettsβ
- Unofficial Christmas truce began in areas of the Western Front during World War Iβ
- CONAD (later, NORAD) began to track Santa Clausβ
- Catcher Jason Varitek was named captain of the Boston Red Soxβ
Weather
- Chicago set a record low temperature of -23 degrees Fβ
- In Fairfield, Montana, the temperature dropped from 63 degrees F at noontime to a chilly 21 degrees below zero F at midnightβ
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