On December 26th

PEOPLE WHO LEFT THE WORLD ON
DECEMBER 26TH

267 Dionysius, bishop of Rome and saint1476 Galeazzo Maria Sforza, duke of Milan, murdered1627 Gonzaga, Italian monarch of Mantua and Monferrato
1776 Johann Gottlieb Rall, mercenary Hessian colonel killed in battle
1862 in Mankato Minnesota, 38 Santee Sioux Indians were hanged
1890 Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist aged 86 1956 Holmes Herbert, actor 74 1966 Noel Gallon, composer 75
1971 Robert Lowery, actor aged 57 1972 Harry Truman the 33rd President of the U.S. died in Kansas City aged 88
1973 William Haines, actor 73
1974 Jack Benny, comedian aged 80
1977 Howard Hawks, director, aged 81
1985 Dian Fossey, zoologist specializing in Gorillas, murdered aged 53
1986 Elsa Lanchester, actress 84
1988 John Loder, actor aged 90 1992 Constance Carpenter, actress, dies of stroke aged 87
1993 Jeff Morrow, actor aged 80
1994 Robert Emhardt, actor, 80
1997 John Whitley, air-Marshal, aged 92




20 PEOPLE WHO ARRIVED IN THE WORLD ON
DECEMBER 26TH
1194 Frederick II, Iesi Italy, German Emperor and King of Sicily1618 abbess Elisabeth Paltsgravin of Rhine
1716 Thomas Gray, English poet
1792 Charles Babbage, English inventor of the calculating machine
1805 Joseph-Leon Gatayes, composer 1855 Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn, composer
1891 Henry Miller, author
1894 Antonio Molina, composer
1902 Elisha Cook Jr, San Francisco California, actor
1914 Richard Widmark, Sunrise Michigan, actor
1921 Steve Allen, New York City, comedian and TV host
1927 Denis Quilley, London English actor
1930 Donald Moffat, Plymouth English actor 1932 Walter Leblanc, Belgian painter
1939 Harvey Phil Spector, record producer
1944 Jane Lapotaire, actress 1951 Richard Skinner, British Disc Jockey1953 Matthew Harding, businessman and Chelsea football supporter and director1972 Jared Leto, Bossier City Louisiana, actor
1985 Steven Hartman, Westlake California, actor

IT HAPPENED ON DECEMBER 26TH

268 St Dionysius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
418 St Zosimus ends his reign as Catholic Pope 795 St Leo III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1198 French bishop Odo van Sully condemns Zottenfeest
1481 Battle at Westbroek Dutch army defeats Utrecht
1492 the 1st Spanish settlement in the New World is founded, by Columbus
1773 the Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia
1799 Colonel Lee says George Washington, is 1st in war, 1st in peace and 1st in the hearts of his countrymen1805 France and Austria signs Peace of Pressburg 1862 38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minnesota 1862 Battle of Dumfries, Virginia
1872 18 inches is the 4th largest snowfall in New York City’s history
1899 Baden-Powell led a failed assault to relieve Mafeking, 24 killed
1916 Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France
1925 Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar 1926 Prince-regent Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan1928 Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming 1932 Earthquake kills 70,000 in Gansu China1939 Earthquake in East Anatolia Turkey 1941 Winston Churchill becomes the First British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of Congress1943 British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst1944 Battle of Bastogne US General Patton breaks through the German lines
1946 Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens1947 Heavy snow blankets Northeast USA burying New York City under 25.8" of snow in just 16 hrs 1955 RKO is 1st to announce sale of its film library to TV 1964 Moors Murderers claim last victim 1965 Paul McCartney is interviewed on pirate radio station Radio Caroline1966 Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa the First fruits of harvest festival 1967 Dave Brubeck Quartet formally disbands
1968 Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, killing 1 1973 5 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours 1973 Soyuz 13 returns to Earth 1975 the first supersonic transport service begins in the USSR with the Tupolev-144
1978 India's former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, is released from jail
1984 Belgian princess Astrid marries Archduke Lorenz of Austria-Este
1986 Terrorists Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed
1991 Militant Sikhs kill 55 and wound 70 in India
1991 Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in an auction
1993 Antonov-26 crashes at Gyumri, Armenia, 36 killed 1994 French commandos’ terminate Air France hijacking in Marseille

On December 21st

20 PEOPLE WHO LEFT THE WORLD ON
DECEMBER 21ST

918 Conrad I, German King and Duke of Franconia
1375 Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet
1597 Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit saint, aged 76
1674 Rutger van Haersolte, viceroy of Overijsselse, 66
1736 Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect, aged 451864 William Henry Fry, composer, 51 1890 Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish composer, aged 73
1906 Adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer, 58 1928 Harry Butt, English cricketer, wicket-keeper1940 F Scott Fitzgerald, author, died of a heart attack aged 44 1945 George S Patton, World War Two U.S. General killed in car crash aged 60 1955 Dorothy Bernard, actress, 65 1957 Eric Coates, composer, 71
1958 Harry Byron (HB) Warner, actor, aged 83 1963 Jack Hobbs, English cricketer
1967 Stuart Erwin, actor, dies of heart attack aged 64
1974 Richard Long, actor, 47 1980 Marc Connelly, playwright, aged 90
1983 Rod Cameron, actor 73 1992 Stella Adler, U.S. actress, 90


20 PEOPLE WHO ARRIVED IN THE WORLD ON
DECEMBER 21ST

1117 Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury
1537 Johan III, king of Sweden (1569-92)
1804 Benjamin Disraeli, British Tory Prime Minister (1868, 1874-80)
1879 Joseph Stalin, Russian dictator murdered 11,000,000 during his reign1913 Raich Carter, English footballer
1918 Kurt Waldheim, Austrian President, Nazi, 4th United Nations Secretary General 1928 Ed Nelson, New Orleans Louisiana actor 1937 Jane Fonda, New York City, actress 1940 Frank Zappa, Baltimore, rock musician 1940 Ray Hildebrand, (Paul), Texas, singer (Hey Paula) 1946 Carl Dean Wilson, Hawthorne California, rock vocalist 1948 Samuel L Jackson, actor
1953 Betty Wright, American gospel singer
1954 Chris Evert, Fort Lauderdale Texas, tennis pro 1957 Lisa Gerritsen, Los Angeles California, actress 1959 Florence Griffith Joyner, Los Angeles California, athlete 1962 Christy Forester, Lookout Mountain Georgia, country singer1968 Khrystyne Haje, Santa Clara, California, actress
1969 Julie Delpy, actress1978 Michael Vitar, Los Angeles California, actor

IT HAPPENED ON DECEMBER 21ST

1163 Hurricane hits villages in Holland and Friesland, causing devastating floods
1582 Flanders adopts Gregorian calendar
1620 The Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
1835 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin aboard sails into the Bay of Islands New Zealand
1864 General Sherman conquers Savannah1898 Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium1910 An Explosion in a coal mine in Hulton England kills 344 mine workers1912 Denmark, Norway and Sweden declare neutrality in the Comende war1913 The 1st 32 clue crossword puzzle was printed in New York World1919 J Edgar Hoover deported anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman to Russia1923 Nepal changes from British protectorate to an independent nation1925 Eisenstein's movie the battleship Potemkin premieres in Moscow 1933 20th century Fox signs Shirley Temple aged 5 to a studio contract
1937 Snow White the 1st feature length color and sound cartoon premiered 1941 German submarine U-567 sinks
1946 Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life," premiered
1946 An Earthquake in Southern Japan, kills 1,086 1948 State of Eire formerly called the Irish Free State declared its independence
1951 Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
1954 Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered and the Dr is accused of the crime
1958 Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st President of 5th Rep of France
1959 10th largest snowfall in New York City’s history 13.7" 1966 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 13 for soft-landing in Oceanus Procellarum
1968 Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) the 1st manned Moon voyage launched1971 UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General
1975 Madagascar adopts constitution
1976 UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979 the Year of Child 1978 Police in Des Plaines Illinois arrest John Wayne Gacy, Jr. for murder 1979 Zimbabwe adopts constitution 1988 NY bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Lockerbie Scotland all 258 aboard die
1989 Dan Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with the word beacon spelled beakon 1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States 1991 95 ticket holders share in the Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery
1992 Dutch DC-10 caught fire on landing at Faro Airport Portugal, 56 die
1994 Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street station New York City

Christmas Poetry

THREE WISE ONES

The three wise men
Traveled for days before reaching Bethlehem
And arrived after the birth
They stood and viewed the scene in awe
And knelt reverently in the lords presence
Then gave their gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh

The three wise women
Would have stopped to ask directions
And arrived before the birth
They would have delivered the baby
Then they would have cleaned the stable and cooked a meal
Before giving the baby really useful gifts

CHRISTMAS ALPHABET

Angels from on high
Behold we bring newsChrist is coming
Do not be afraidEmmanuel is comingFollow yonder star
Go to BethlehemHosanna God be praised

In the town of Bethlehem Jesus was bornKneeling shepherds before him
Lowing beasts in attendanceMagi from the east
Noel, noel, noel

On the first morning
Peace came to the worldQuelling fear and pain
Rekindling the light
Saviour son of God
The prince of peace was born
Uniting the world

Verily the most
Wondrous of times
Xmas festival of love
Yule tide of good will
Zion brought to earth

ON CHRISTMAS DAY

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 352
Christmas was celebrated on December 25th.for the first time.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 597 England adopted the Julian calendar
ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1100
Boudouin I of Boulogne was crowned king of Jerusalem
ON CHRISTMAS DAY 800
Pope Leo III crowned Charles the Great of the Franks, Charlemagne, Roman emperor.
ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1024
Boleslaw I Chrobry was crowned as the first king of Poland.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1492
Christopher Columbus' ship the Santa Maria docked in what was to become the Dominican Republic.
ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1599
The city of Natal was founded in Brazil.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1651
The Massachusetts General Court ordered a fine of five shillings for anyone who observed the day of Christmas.
ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1717
Floods ravaged the Dutch coastal provinces and many thousands were killed.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1741The Astronomer Anders Celsius introduced the Centigrade temperature scale.
ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1758
Farmer and amateur astronomer Johann George Palitzsch was the first to sight
Halley's Comet on its first predicted return.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1776
George Washington crossed the Delaware River and surprised and defeated 1,400 Hessians.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1831
Louisiana and Arkansas were the first states to observe Christmas as holiday.
ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1837
The United States forces defeated the Seminole Indians at the Battle of Okeechobee.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1868
Despite bitter opposition United States President Andrew Johnson granted unconditional pardons to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion.
ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1896
John Philip Sousa wrote "Stars & Stripes Forever".
ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1901
The Boers launched a surprise attack against the British forces in the Orange-Free state at the Battle at Tweefontein.
ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1868
The Ezo Republic was founded in Hokkaido by Shogunate rebels.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1918
Just after midnight on Christmas morning the unofficial "Christmas Truce" began, German troops ceased firing their guns and artillery and then started singing Christmas carols. Later in the day men from both sides left their trenches and met in No man's land where they traded gifts with the enemy. The truce lasted for three days.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1926
Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan, succeeding the Taisho Emperor.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1932
An earthquake measuring 7.6 struck Gansu in China killing
70,000 people.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1932
While King George V was delivering his Christmas dinner speech his chair collapsed.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1938
The great American film director, George Cukor, announced that Vivien Leigh would play Scarlett O'Hara in the epic Gone with the Wind.
ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1939
Charles Dickens' story of redemption “A Christmas Carol” was read on radio for the first time. It was broadcast on CBS radio.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1939
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was introduced by Montgomery Ward stores to become the 9th reindeer.
ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1941
Japan announced the surrender of the British-Canadian garrison in Hong Kong to the forces of Japan.
ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1947
The Constitution of the Republic of China went into effect.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1950
The Coronation Stone, taken from Scone in Scotland by Edward I in 1296, was stolen from Westminster Abbey and smuggled back to Scotland.
ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1953
An Avalanche of lava killed 150 people after the volcano Ruapehu erupted in New Zealand.
ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1971
The Worst hotel fire in history killed 163 people at the Taeyokale Hotel in the South Korean capital Seoul.
ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1974
Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin, Australia causing unprecedented damage.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1976
Takeo Fukuda became the Japanese premier.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1977
The Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin met in Egypt with the President of Egypt Anwar Sadat

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1991
Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigned as president of the Soviet Union and the Union was formally dissolved the next day.

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 2004
The Cassini orbiter launched the Huygens probe towards titan, Saturn's moon.

BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY # 1

Princess Alexandra was born on Christmas day 1936 at 3, Belgrave Square in London.Conrad Hilton the founder of the hotel chain was born 1887
Dorothy Wordsworth the English prose writer and younger sister of poet William Wordsworth was born in 1771 in Cockermouth Cumbria.
Sir Isaac Newton the renowned scientist was born near Grantham in Lincolnshire, on December 25, 1642
And Humphrey Deforest Bogart was born on Christmas day in 1899 in New York.

BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY # 2

Born on christmas day 1901 was Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester.
While on christmas day 1742 Charlotte von Stein the girlfriend of Goethe was born.
The telecommunications pioneer Claude Chappe the inventor of semaphore lines was born on christmas day 1763
Christmas day 1821 Clara Barton the founder of the American Red Cross was born.
While on December 25th 1886 Kid Ory, jazz musician made his first entrance and.
Noel Redding, bassist with The Jimi Hendrix Experience was born 1945.

BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY # 3

The famous German painter Hans von Bartels was born on christmas day in 1856 and another artist was born the same day in
1883, Maurice Utrillo, one of the "Montmartre" artist’s.
Bandleader Cab Calloway way born on the savior’s day in 1907
Sir Lew Grade the famous film producer was first produced on christmas day 1906 and fellow movie producer Ismail Merchant made his festive debut in 1936.

POLITICAL FIGURES BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY

Muhammed Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan 1876
Anwar Sadat, Egyptian president 1918
Atal Behari Vajpayee, Prime Minister of India 1924
Ingrid Betancourt, Colombian senator 1961

BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY # 4

On christmas day 1908 the actress Helen Twelvetrees made her first appearance and in 1943 another actress Hanna Schygulla did the same.
In 1945 actor Gary Sandy made his Christmas debut and in 1949 Sissy Spacek arrived in time for Christmas lunch.

BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY # 5

Quite a few singers have had their first releases on Christmas day
In 1912 it was Tony Martin, 1932 rock and roll legend Little Richard, singer, songwriter Jimmy Buffett in 1946 two years later in 1948 it was the turn of actress and singer Barbara Mandrell. UB40 singer and guitarist Robin Campbell was born on christmas day 1954 as was Annie Lennox, singer with the Eurythmics, then on the holy day in 1971 it was the singer Dido.

BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY # 6

On christmas day 1908 Quentin Crisp, gay author and activist for homosexuals was born while fellow author Carlos Castaneda arrived in 1925.
Rod Serling scriptwriter and the host of The Twilight Zone was born christmas day 1924 and in 1913 it was Henri Nannen, journalist and publisher.

SPORTSMEN BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY

Kenny Stabler, American football born 1945
Larry Csonka, American football born 1946
Rickey Henderson, baseball born 1958

DIED ON CHRISTMAS DAY # 1

W.C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield) died December 25, 1946 aged 66 in Pasadena.
Paul Bourget the French novelist and critic died 1935.The comic film star Charles Spencer Chaplin died at his home in Switzerland in 1977 aged 88.
And in 1995 entertainer Dean Martin died at his Beverly Hills home at the age of 78.

DIED ON CHRISTMAS DAY # 2

Adrian I a well regarded Pope and friend to Charlemagne died christmas day 795.
Samuel de Champlain the French explorer and founder of Quebec City died in Canada in 1635.
Czech author and inventor of the word robot Karel Čapek died December 25th 1938
Harry T. Moore the black civil rights activist was murdered along with his wife Harriet in their home in Florida christmas day 1951.
English snooker player John Pulman passed away on December 25th 1998.

DIED ON CHRISTMAS DAY # 3

Ismet Inonu Turkish statesman died at his home on 1973.
Tristan Tzara, poet and essayist and founder of Dada, the nihilistic revolutionary movement in the arts died in Paris1963
Joan Miró, Spanish Surrealist Painter and Sculptor died on Christmas day 1983.
Nicolae Ceauşescu the Romanian dictator was executed in his palace in 1989.
American baseball player and manager Billy Martin died on December 25th 1989.

On December 13th

IT HAPPENED ON DECEMBER 13TH

863 Boudouin with the Iron Arm married Judith, daughter of Charles de Kales
1545 Council of Trente the 19th ecumenical council opens
1642 Dutch navigator Abel Tasman discovers New Zealand 1577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to circumnavigate the world1833 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin aboard arrives in Port Deseado, Patagonia
1843 "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens first published
1903 Wright Brothers make maiden flight at Kittyhawk
1903 Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone in New Jersey
1913 the Mona Lisa which was stolen in Aug 1911 returned to the Louvre
1916 Avalanche in the Tyrol kills 10,000 Austrian and Italian troops in 24 hrs
1918 U.S. Army of occupation crosses Rhine and enters Germany 1918 Wilson, becomes the first serving president to make a foreign visit (France) 1919 Ross and Smith land in Australia after flying from London
1920 League of nations establishes International Court of Justice in The Hague
1928 Clip-on tie designed 1938 Los Angeles freezes at 28ø F
1939 Battle of the River Plate between 3 British cruisers and the German Graf Spee
1941 U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal1943 150 U.S. Marauders bomb Schiphol1944 Japanese kamikaze pilot crashes into U.S. cruiser Nashville killing 1381949 Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem1951 Future British Prime Minister Margaret Roberts marries Denis Thatcher
1959 Archbishop Makarios elected first president of Cyprus
1966 U.S. bomb Hanoi for the first time 1967 Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II
1974 Malta becomes a republic
1976 Longest non-stop passenger flight 13hours 14mins (Sydney to San Francisco)
1977 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash
1978 the first U.S. coin to honor a woman, the Susan B. Anthony dollar is issued
1979 Strikes against price increases in Gdansk Poland
1981 Polish government declares martial law and arrests Solidarity activists
1982 a major Earthquake hits Northern Yemen killing 2,000
1990 Heavy earthquake strikes Sicily, 18 die
1993 Fire in textile factory in Fuzjou China, killing 60 1994 American eagle commuter plane crashes in North Carolina, killing 15

20 PEOPLE WHO ARRIVED IN THE WORLD ON
DECEMBER 13TH

1533 Erik XIV, king of Sweden 1560-69 1553 Henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of Navarre, France
1724 Franz Maria Ulrich Theodosius Aepinus, in Rostock, German physician/physicist 1732 Jean-Claude Trial, composer 1740 Franz Xavier Schnitzer, composer 1770 John Clarke-Whitfield, composer 1797 Heinrich Heine, Germany, poet and lyricist
1810 Clark Mills, American sculptor
1819 Edwin George Monk, composer
1893 Curt Jurgens, Munich Germany, actor
1910 Van Heflin, Walters Oklahoma actor
1925 Dick Van Dyke, West Plains Missouri, actor 1929 Christopher Plummer, Toronto, actor
1930 Robert Prosky, Philadelphia, actor
1948 Lillian Board, England, 400m runner
1951 Robert Lindsay, Ilkeston England, actor
1952 John Francombe, English national hunt jockey 1957 Steve Buscemi, actor
1967 Jamie Foxx, comedian
1981 Chelsea Hertford, actress

20 PEOPLE WHO LEFT THE WORLD ON
DECEMBER 13TH

838 Pippijn I, King of Aquitania
1048 Al-Biruni, Arabic royal astrologer aged 74
1126 Hendrik IX, Hendrik the Black, Duke of Bayern (1120-26)
1204 Maimonides, Jewish philosopher and Talmudic scholar, died in Cairo aged 69
1250 Frederick II, German Emperor (1212-1250), aged 55
1404 Albrecht, duke of Bavaria, aged 74
1521 Manoel I "the Great", King of Portugal (1495-1521), 52
1565 Konrad von Gesner, naturalist, aged 49
1574 Selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74), 50
1603 Franciscus Vieta, mathematician, died in Paris aged 63 1622 Jan Campanus, composer, 50
1793 Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, composer, aged 63
1812 Marianne von Martinez, composer, 68 1945 Robert van Genechten, Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide
1961 Grandma Moses, U.S. painter, aged 101 1969 Raymond A Spruance, U.S. Admiral Battle of Midway veteran, dies at 83 1990 Alice Marble, California, tennis star, 77 1993 Myrna Loy, actress, aged 88
1994 Norman Beaton, actor, 60 1997 Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician, aged 94

SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM

SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Arabic
Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Afrikaans
GeSëende KersfeesEen Plesierige KerfeesAfrican (Eritrea, Tigrinja)
Rehus-Beal-LedeatsAfrican (Kwa, Yoruba)
E ku odun, e ku iye'dun
African (Chadic, Hausa)
Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar ShekaraHebrew
Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tovaIran (Farsi)
Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashadIraq
Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM THE PACIFIC

Hawaii
Mele Kalikimaka ame Hauoli Makahiki HouNew Zealand (Maori)
Meri KirihimetePapua New Guinea
Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yuPhilippines
Maligayan Pasko
Philippines (Tagalog)
Maligayamg Pasko
Masaganang Bagong TaonSamoa
La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou

SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM INDIA

India (Bengali)
Shuvo Naba BarshaIndia (Hindi)
Shub Naya BarasIndia (Marathi)
Shub Naya VarshIndia (Urdu)
Naya Saal Mubarak Ho
SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM ANCIENT LANDS

Latin
Natale hilare et Annum FaustumLow Saxon
Heughliche Winachten un 'n moi NijaarOccitan (medieval Southern France)
Pulit nadal e bona annado
Persia (Farsi)
Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashadRhetian (Of the Rhetian Alps now Tyrol)
Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn



SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM ASIA

Afghanistan (Pushto)
Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak ShaBahasa Malaysia
Selamat Hari NatalChina (Cantonese)
Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw SunChina (Mandarin)
Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen TanIndonesia
Selamat Hari NatalJapan
Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu OmedetoKorea
Sung Tan Chuk HaRapa-Nui (Easter Island)
Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
Sri Lanka (Singhalese)
Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak VewaThailand
Sawadee Pee MaiVietnam
Chung Mung Giang Sinh
SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM THE OLD RUSSIAN REPUBLIC

Armenia
Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari GaghandAzerbaijan (Azeri)
Tezze Iliniz Yahsi OlsunEstonia
Ruumsaid juuluphiLatvia (Lettish)
Priecigus Ziemassvetkus
Latvia
Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno GaduLithuania
Linksmu KaleduRussia
Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim GodomUkraine
Srozhdestvom Kristovym
SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM SOUTHERN EUROPE

Corsica
Pace e saluteMalta
IL-Milied It-tajjebItaly
Buone Feste NataliziePortugugal
Feliz NatalSardinia
Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nouSpain
Feliz Navidad
Spain (Basque)
Zorionak eta Urte Berri On
Spain (Catalan)
Bon Nadal i un Bon Any NouSpain (Galician)
Bo Nada
SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM NORTHERN EUROPE

Belgium (Flemish)
Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaarEngland
Merry Christmas Esperanto
Gajan KristnaskonFrance
Joyeux NoelFrisian Islands
Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!Germany
Froehliche WeihnachtenThe Netherlands
Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!or Zalig Kerstfeast



SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM EASTHERN EUROPE

Bohemia
Vesele Vanoce
Bulgaria
Tchestita Koleda;
Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo
Czech Republic
Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
Hungary
Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket
Poland
Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze NarodzenieRomania
Sarbatori veseleSlovakia
Sretan Bozic
Vesele Vianoce
A stastlivy Novy RokSlovenia
Vesele Bozicne. Screcno Novo Leto

SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM THE CELTS

Breton
Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh matCornwall
Nadelik looan na looan blethen nowethGaelic
Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!
Ireland
Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnatIsle of Mann
Nollick ghennal as blein vie noaScotland
Nollaig chridheil huibhWales
Nadolig Llawen



SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM THE FIRST NATIONS OF AMERICA

Choctaw, Muskhogean
Yukpa, Nitak Hollo ChitoCree, Algonquian
Mitho Makosi KesikansiInuit
Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo
Iroquois
Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut. Ojenyunyat osrasay.Navajo, Athapaskan
Merry Keshmish
SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM THE BALKANS

Albania
Gezur KrislinjdenCroatia
Sretan BozicMacedonia
Sreken BozhikSerbia
Hristos se rodiSerbo-Croatia
Sretam Bozic. Vesela Nova Godina Yugoslavia
Cestitamo BozicGreece
Kala ChristouyennaTurkey
Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun


SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM SCANDINAVIA

Denmark
Glædelig JulFaroe Islands
Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjarFinland
Hyvaa jouluaIceland
Gledileg JolLappland (Sami)
Buorrit JuovllatNorway
God Jul, or Gledelig Jul
Sweden
God Jul
Ett Gott Nytt År

SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM THE AMERICAS

Argentina
Feliz NavidadBrazil
Boas Festas e Feliz Ano NovoChile
Feliz NavidadColumbia
Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año NuevoNetherlands Antilles (Papiamento)
Bon Pasco Pennsylvania
En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!Peru
Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año NuevoU.S.A.
Happy Holidays

IT HAPPENED ON DECEMBER 6TH

IT HAPPENED ON DECEMBER 6TH

963 Leo VIII elected Pope
1196 Northern Dutch coast flooded in the "Saint-Nicolaas Flood"
1240 The Mongols under Batu Khan occupied and destroy Kiev
1424 Don Alfonso V of Aragon grants Barcelona the right to exclude Jews
1491 King Charles VIII of France marries Anna of Bretagne
1492 the island of Haiti is discovered by Christopher Columbus
1648 Thomas Pride prevents 96 Presbyterians from sitting in the English parliament 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army retreats to Scotland
1756 British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India 1768 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Britannica" is published in Scotland1820 US president James Monroe re-elected1833 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin aboard departs Rio de la Plata1849 Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland1862 President Lincoln orders the hanging of 39 Santee Sioux Indians
1865 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery 1873 1st international football game in the USA Yale 2, Eton 1
1876 1st crematorium in the USA begins operation, Washington, Penn 1877 1st sound recording made by Thomas Edison 1877 Washington Post publishes its 1st edition 1907 Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 3611912 China votes for universal human rights
1914 German troops over run Lodz
1917 Finland declares independence from Russia 1917 French munitions ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax killing 1,700
1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty signed giving Ireland dominion status and partition creates Northern Ireland
1940 Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter the poster artist Helen Ernst
1941 Dutch and British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore
1956 Nelson Mandela and 156 others are arrested for political activities in South Africa1963 Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans1966 Polio vaccination becomes obligatory in Belgium1973 Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeding Spiro T Agnew1989 Worst Canadian mass murder when Marc Lepine kills 14 women at Montreal university1990 Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature is sold for $23,100
1992 300,000 Hindus attack and destroy the mosque of Babri India, 4 die 1994 Maltese Falcon auctioned for $398,590

20 PEOPLE WHO LEFT THE WORLD ON
DECEMBER 6TH

1185 Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85) aged 76
1352 Clement VI, [Pierre Roger], Pope (1342-52) 1779 Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin, French still life painter aged 80
1882 Anthony Trollope, writer
1889 Joseph H "Jozef" Neuhuys, painter, 48
1889 Jefferson Davis, President of Confederate States (1861-5), 81
1926 Claude [Oscar] Monet, French impressionist painter aged 86
1933 Auguste Chapuis, composer, 75
1943 Hermann Lohr, composer, 72
1946 Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg, composer, aged 63
1973 Robert A Watson-Watt, English physicist (radar), 81
1988 Roy Orbison, singer (Pretty Woman), dies of massive heart attack at 52
1989 John Paine, actor (Miracle on 34th St), aged 77 1992 Percy Herbert, actor, dies of heart attack at 721993 Prof Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel prize winner 1989, aged 80
1993 Don Ameche, actor, dies of prostate cancer at 85
1994 Alan Owen, English screenplay writer and actor (Hard Day's Night), 69
1995 Claire Polin, composer aged 69
1995 Kathleen Harrison, British actress (Mrs Thusday), dies aged 103
1997 Eliot Daniel, composer (I Love Lucy theme), aged 89



20 PEOPLE WHO ARRIVED IN THE WORLD ON
DECEMBER 6TH
1285 Ferdinand V, king of Castile and Leon
1421 Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 1470-71)
1550 Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer
1608 George Monck, English general governor of Scotland
1768 Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer
1775 Nicolas Isouard, composer
1792 Willem II Frederik GL, King of Netherlands (1840-49) 1896 Ira Gershwin, lyricist1906 actress Agnes Moorehead born Clinton Massachusetts
1920 Dave Brubeck, Concord California, jazz pianist and composer1939 Tomas Svoboda, Paris, France, Czech composer (Etude) 1941 mass murderer Richard Speck, (killed 8 student nurses in 1966) 1943 Mike Smith, London England, pianist with the Dave Clark 5
1948 Jonathan King, London, singer songwriter and producer
1948 actress JoBeth Williams, Houston Texas1949 cricketer Peter Willey, England batsman
1953 Gina Hecht, Houston Texas, actress
1955 Steven Wright, dry comedian
1962 Janine Turner, Lincoln Nebraska, actress
1965 actress Teri Hatcher, Sunnyvale California