CAROLINA NATURALLY: Dec 25, 2013

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

The Daily Drift

It's Xmas ...

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Out of the mouths of babes ... !

Today is - Xmas

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The Americas

Byward Market, Ottawa, Blainville, Britannia, Thunder Bay, Pikangikum, North, York, Toronto, Moosonee, Calgary, Mississauga, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Vancouver, Canada

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mexico City, Mexico

The Bottom, Sint Eustatius and Saba

Bull Savanna, Jamaica

Tipitapa, Nicaragua

Panama, Panama

Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Europe

Starachowice, Warsaw and Krakow, Poland

Frydek-Mistek, Czech Republic

Dublin and Swords, Ireland

Ivrea, Milan, Pisa, Rome, and Bergamo, Italy

Bristol, London, Woking, Crawley, Leeds and Consett, England

Madrid, Cadiz, Basauri and L'Olleria, Spain

Sarajevo and Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Lisbon, Porto and Funchal, Portugal

Gistrup and Copenhagen, Denmark

Rouen, Boulogne-Billancourt, Saint- Maurice, Paris and Lyon, France

Groningen, Netherlands

Kista, Sweden

Sulzbach, Koeln and Nuremberg, Germany

Novi Sad, Serbia

Zhovti Vody and Odessa, Ukraine

Lucenec, Slovakia

Chelyabinsk, Russia

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Riga, Latvia

Vienna, Austria

Newport, Wales

Budapest, Hungary

Asia

Colombo and Kandy, Sri Lanka

Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Islamabad, Karachi and Hyderabad, Pakistan

Hyderabad, Bhubaneshwar, Delhi, Cannanore, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, New Delhi, Thiruvananthapuram and Pondicherry, India

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Tel Aviv, Israel

Beijing, China

Kebon and Jakarta, Indonesia

Port Louis, Mauritius

Bangkok, Thailand

Kuwait, Kuwait

Jerdong, Brunei Darussalam

Africa

Casablanca, Morocco

Cairo, Egypt

Sfax and Tunis, Tunisia

Abobo, Cote D'Ivoire

Pacific

Homebush and Sydney, Australia

Paranaque and Makati, Philippines

Suva, Fiji

Today in History

376		In Milan, Ambrose, the Bishop of Milan, forces the emperor Theodosius to perform public penance for his massacre.
800		The pope crowns Charlemagne emperor in Rome.
1066		William I is crowned king of England.
1621		The governor of New Plymouth prevents newcomers from playing cards.
1651		The General Court of Boston levies a five shilling fine on anyone caught "observing any such day as Christmas."
1776		Patriot General George Washington crosses the Delaware River with 5,400 troops during the American Revolution. Washington hoped to surprise a Hessian force celebrating Christmas at their winter quarters in Trenton, New Jersey.
1861		Stonewall Jackson spends Christmas with his wife; their last together.
1862		John Hunt Morgan and his raiders clash with Union forces near Bear Wallow, Kentucky.
1862		President and Mrs. Lincoln visit hospitals in the Washington D.C. area on this Christmas Day.
1912		Italy lands troops in Albania to protect its interests during a revolt there.
1914		German and British troops on the Western Front declare an unofficial truce to celebrate Christmas during World War I.
1918		A revolt erupts in Berlin.
1925		U.S. troops in Nicaragua disarm insurgents in support of the Diaz regime.
1927		The Mexican congress opens land to foreign investors, reversing the 1917 ban enacted to preserve the domestic economy.
1939		Finnish troops enter Soviet territory.
1941		Free French troops occupy the French Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon off the Canadian coast.
1944		Prime Minister Winston Churchill goes to Athens to seek an end to the Greek civil war.
1946		Chiang Kai-shek offers a new Chinese constitution in Nanking pledging universal suffrage.
1950		Scottish nationalists steal the Stone of Scone from the British coronation throne in Westminster Abbey. The 485 pound stone was recovered in April 1951.
1962		The Bay of Pigs captives, upon their return to the United States, vow to return to Cuba and topple Fidel Castro.
1965		Entertainer Chris Noel gives her first performance for the USO at two hospitals in California; became a star on Armed Forces Radio and Television, entertaining troops in Vietnam; in 1984 Veterans Network honored her with a Distinguished Vietnam Veteran award.
1973		U.S. astronauts onboard the Skylab space station take a seven-hour walk in space and photograph the comet Kohoutek.
1976		Over 100 Muslims, returning from a pilgrimage to Mecca, die when their boat sinks.
1979		Egypt begins major restoration of the Sphinx.
1991		Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's first and last executive president, resigns. The Soviet Union no longer exsists.
2006		James Brown, the "Godfather of Soul", dies at age 73.