Month: December 2025

 NEW YEARS EVE — 1941 Kennedy and Khrushchev exchange holiday pleasantries; 2014 Drew Brees breaks passing yardage record; 1926 Prohibition leads to chemical warfare with U.S. Government; 1935 Charles Darrow patents Monopoly game DECEMBER 31 NEW YEARS EVE. 1941 –

DECEMBER 30 — 1852 Happy anniversary President Rutherford and First Lady Lucy Hays;1861 Greenback rises from the ashes of useless gold and silver from NY banks; SPORTS: 1984 Happy Birthday King LeBron DECEMBER 30 1861 – New York banks suspend

DECEMBER 29 –1693 Happy birthday Ohio explorer and military leader Pierre Joseph Celeron de Blainville; INVENTIONS/PATENTS: 1900 Happy Birthday Charles Goodyear, 1921 Happy Birthday Robert Baker (invented chicken nugget), 1891 Edison patents radio DECEMBER 29 1693 — happy birthday Pierre

DECEMBER 28 — 1856 Happy Birthday Woodrow Wilson; INVENTIONS/PATENTS: 1879 Edison and Swan’s Electric Light DECEMBER 28 1856 Happy birthday Woodrow The Phrasemaker Wilson, #28. He was actually born around midnight, so some sources list that he was born on

DECEMBER 27 — 1932 Radio City Music Hall opens; INVENTION/PATENTS: 1931 R.I.P. Melvil Dewey (Dewey Decimal System); 1865 James Mason patents coffee percolator; 1908 Jack Johnson TKOs Tommy Burns; 1944 FDR seizes control of Montgomery Wards DECEMBER 27 1932 –

DECEMBER 26 — 1777 Battle of Trenton Conclusion: Washington surprises Hessains; 1999 Child entertainer Jon-Benet Ramsey found dead; 1966 1st Kwanzaa  1776 — Washington surprises the Hessians. Whoever said Washington never told a lie must be talking about a different

CHRISTMAS — 1914 Germans and British stop fighting to celebrate Christmas; 1862 Elijah Roades writes Christmas Memoirs, Bing Crosby introduces White Christmas, all-time best selling song; 1776 Washington crosses icy Delaware River CHRISTMAS 1914 – The Germans and British stopped

DECEMBER 24 — 1923 Coolidge lights 1st national Christmas Tree;1777 Battle of Trenton Pt. 2: Washington sends spy to fool Hessian leader  about Continental army Christmas attack; 1955 NORAD begins using Santa Tracker 1923 – Silent Cal lights up the

DECEMBER 23 — 1777 Battle of Trenton Pt. 1: Washington draws inspiration for Continental Army from Thomas Paine’s An American Crisis;  1919 Alice Parker patents gas heating furnace; 1883 Maj. Rathbone snaps; 1972 The Immaculate Reception DECEMBER 23 1777 —

DECEMBER 22 — 1807 Trading stops between the U.S. and France and England from the Embargo Act; 1882 Edison invents Christmas Tree lights; 1913 News of Federal Reserve Act hits the world; 2009 Sleigh Ride most popular Holiday Song; 1971