December 24<\/p>\n
1144 \u2013 The capital of the crusader County of Edessa, in modern southeastern Turkey, falls to Imad ad-Din Zengi, the atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo.<\/p>\n
1777 \u2013 Christmas Island in the Gilbert archipelago – Kiritimati,<\/em>\u00a0as pronounced by the native populace – is named such by James Cook during his 3rd voyage<\/p>\n 1814 \u2013 Representatives of the United Kingdom and the United States sign the Treaty of Ghent<\/em>, ending the War of 1812.<\/p>\n 1818 \u2013 The first performance of “Silent Night” composed by Franz Xaver Gruber takes place in the church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.<\/p>\n 1877\u00a0 – Thomas Edison files for a patent for the cylinder phonograph.<\/p>\n 1914 \u2013 During the first winter of World War I, the “Christmas Truce” begins.<\/p>\n 1942 –\u00a0 The first V-1 ‘buzz bomb’, is launched at Peenemunde, Germany<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is named Supreme Allied Commander for the Invasion of Normandy.<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 Firing the Apollo 8 Service Module main engine, the crew becomes the first humans to reach the moon and enter into Lunar orbit.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 The District of Columbia Home Rule Act<\/em> is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government.<\/p>\n 1996 \u2013 A Learjet 35 crashes into Smarts Mountain near Dorchester, New Hampshire, killing both pilots on board and resulting in the longest missing aircraft search in the state’s history, lasting almost three years.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 24 1144 \u2013 The capital of the crusader County of Edessa, in modern southeastern Turkey, falls to Imad ad-Din Zengi, the atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo. 1777 \u2013 Christmas Island in the Gilbert archipelago – Kiritimati,\u00a0as pronounced by the native populace – is named such by James Cook during his 3rd voyage 1814 \u2013 … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63223"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98764,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63223\/revisions\/98764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}