Cadets sought to continue the annual tradition of drinking homemade eggnog on Christmas Eve.
21st July 1925: ‘Monkey Trial’ finds John T. Scopes guilty of teaching evolution
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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.
The Christmas Truce saw soldiers on the First World War’s Western Front take part in a series of unofficial ceasefires.
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.
The Saturnalia festival was dedicated to Roman god, Saturn.
18th January 1871: Wilhelm I declared German Emperor
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16th January 27 BCE: Octavian becomes Augustus, Roman Emperor
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15th January 1919: Great Molasses Flood kills 21 people in Boston
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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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