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24th December 1955: Colorado Springs Continental Air Defense Command first gives children the location Santa as he delivers presents

24th December 2022
Tagged as: America, Christmas, Cold War, Colorado Springs, CONAD, NORAD, Santa Claus, United States, USA

CONAD was replaced by NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command) in 1958, and NORAD Tracks Santa has reported Santa’s location ever since.

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23rd December 1823: The poem A Visit from St Nicholas, better known as The Night Before Christmas, published anonymously in the Troy Sentinel

23rd December 2021
Tagged as: America, Christmas, Culture, Literature, Poetry, Santa Claus, United States, USA

The poem is significant for being the first source to give the names of Santa’s reindeer, as well as establishing the image of the jolly fat Santa that we know today.

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24th December 1955: Colorado Springs Continental Air Defense Command first gives children the location Santa as he delivers presents

23rd December 1823: The poem A Visit from St Nicholas, better known as The Night Before Christmas, published anonymously in the Troy Sentinel

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

22nd March 1621: Hugo Grotius, the Dutch legal scholar, escapes imprisonment in Loevestein Castle concealed inside a book chest

21st March 1921: The New Economic Policy introduced to the USSR by Vladimir Lenin

20th March 1602: The Dutch East India Company established

19th March 1962: Bob Dylan, the American singer-songwriter, releases his eponymous debut album

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

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