12-24-2004, 08:47 PM
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December 24th
1491 ~ Birthday of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit order)
1818 ~ Silent Night composed by Franz Xaver Gruber.
1818 ~ Birthday of James Prescott Joule, Physicist.
1910 ~ Birthday of Fritz Leiber, Science Fiction writer.
1914 ~ Birthday of John Muir, Naturalist.
1957 ~ Birthday of Hamid Karzai, first democratically elected President of Afghanistan.
1968 ~ The crew of the USS Pueblo was released by North Korea after being held for 11 months on suspicion of spying.
1974 ~ Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin, Australia.
2003 ~ The Spanish police prevented ETA from detonating 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 PM inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.
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