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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 Xmas.” | |
| 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 Xmas at their winter quarters in Trenton, New Jersey. | |
| 1861 | Stonewall Jackson spends Xmas with his wife; their last together. | |
| 1862 | John Hunt Morgan and his raiders clash with Union forces near Bear Wallow, Kentucky. | |
| 1862 | Lincoln and Mrs. Lincoln visit hospitals in the Washington D.C. area on this Xmas 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 Xmas 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; she became a star on Armed Forces Radio and Television, entertaining troops in Vietnam; in 1984 the 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 a 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. |
10,000 killed in China's 1989 Tiananmen crackdown
Ohio postal worker shoots supervisor and inspector amid fear of getting fired
Police officials said a man working in the United States Postal Service
shot his supervisor to death early Saturday morning before he killed a
postal inspector outside her apartment complex at her house amid fear of
losing his job. 
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