~4BC \u2013 Forced to stay in the equivalent of a modern stable due to all the inns in the city of Bethlehem being full up because of a census and taxing ordered by the Romans, Mariam, the wife of Yosef ben Yakov gives birth to a son they name Yeshua.<\/p>\n
336 \u2013 Christmas is\u00a0 celebrated in Rome for the first time.<\/p>\n
508 \u2013 Clovis I, King of the Franks, is baptized at Reims, France by Bishop Remigius.<\/p>\n
597 \u2013 Augustine of Canterbury baptizes more than 10,000 Anglo Saxons at Kent, England.<\/p>\n
800 \u2013 Charlemagne is crowned Holy Roman Emperor at the ‘Old’ St. Peter’s Basilica in\u00a0 Rome<\/p>\n
1000 \u2013 Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by King Stephen I<\/p>\n
1025 \u2013 Mieszko II Lambert is crowned king of Poland at the Gniezno Cathedral<\/p>\n
1046 \u2013 Henry III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor at ‘Old’ St. Peter’s Basilica in\u00a0 Rome<\/p>\n
1066 \u2013 William the Conqueror is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey<\/p>\n
1100 \u2013 Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem.<\/p>\n
1130 \u2013 Count Roger II is crowned the first King of Sicily at Palermo.<\/p>\n
1758 \u2013 Halley’s Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley’s prediction of its passage, the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013 George Washington leads 2400 members of the Continental Army across the Delaware River, Christmas night to attack Hessian mercenary forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day.<\/p>\n
1814 \u2013 Rev. Samuel Marsden holds the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at Rangihoua Bay.<\/p>\n
1868 \u2013 President Andrew Johnson grants an unconditional pardon to all Confederate veterans.<\/p>\n
1941 \u2013 Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command as Commander in Chief U.S. Pacific Fleet.<\/p>\n
1968 \u2013 Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans Earth Injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.<\/p>\n
1989 \u2013 Deposed Romanian President Nicolae Ceau\u0219escu and his wife, Elena, are arrested, condemned to death after a summary trial, and executed by firing squad.<\/p>\n
1991 \u2013 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n
2020 \u2013 Anthony Quinn Warner blows himself and his RV to bits in downtown Nashville, Tennessee injuring 8 more people.<\/p>\n
2021 \u2013 NASA launches thehe James Webb Space Telescope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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