The Christmas Truce saw soldiers on the First World War’s Western Front take part in a series of unofficial ceasefires.
21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
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On the 24th December 1955, the Colorado Springs’ Continental Air Defense Command first began giving children the current location of Santa as he made his way across the world delivering presents.
80 red, white, and blue walnut-sized glass light bulbs were hand-wired and placed around a large Christmas tree in the home of Edward H. Johnson’s New York home on Fifth Avenue.
The Saturnalia festival was dedicated to Roman god, Saturn.
Cadets sought to continue the annual tradition of drinking homemade eggnog on Christmas Eve.
On the 23rd December 1823, the poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”, more commonly known as “The Night Before Christmas” was published anonymously in the New York Sentinel.
On the 19th December 1843, Charles Dickens’ novella A Christmas Carol was published in London by Chapman & Hall.
On the 9th December 1965, American television network CBS first broadcast the animated cartoon A Charlie Brown Christmas.
10th April 1858: The ‘Big Ben’ bell cast in Whitechapel
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8th April 1904: France and Britain sign the Entente Cordiale
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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