| On this date in: |
| 336 | The first recorded celebration of Christmas on Dec. 25 took place in Rome. |
| 1066 | William the Conqueror was crowned king of England. |
| 1776 | Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, N.J. |
| 1818 | "Silent Night" was performed for the first time, at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorff, Austria. |
| 1821 | Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross, was born in Oxford, Mass. |
| 1868 | President Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional pardon to everyone involved in the Southern rebellion that resulted in the Civil War. |
| 1926 | Hirohito became emperor of Japan, succeeding his father, Emperor Yoshihito. |
| 1977 | Comedian Charlie Chaplin died at age 88. |
| 1989 | Ousted Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were executed. |
| 1989 | Former New York Yankees player and manager Billy Martin, 61, died when the pickup truck he was riding in crashed. |
| 1991 | Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on TV to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a Communist superpower that had already gone out of existence. |
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| 1995 | Singer Dean Martin died at age 78. |
| 2006 | Soul singer James Brown died at age 73. |
| 2009 | Passengers aboard a Northwest Airlines flight foiled an attempt to blow up the plane as it was landing in Detroit by seizing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian accused of trying to set off explosives in his underwear. |
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