Daily Calendar for December 24th, 2020

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1800s

• Born 1809: Kit Carson (frontiersman)

1810s

• 1814: Treaty of Ghent signed between the U.S. and Great Britain, ending the War of 1812

• Born 1818: Eliza Cook (poet)

• 1818: Stille Nacht (Silent Night) first performed, Oberndorf, Austria

1820s

• 1822: Clement Moore's "A Visit From St. Nicholas" likely written

• 1826: The Eggnog Riot began at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York

1840s

• 1849: First great fire of San Francisco

1850s

• 1851: Two-thirds of the collection of the Library of Congress (35,000 volumes) and a portion of the Capitol were destroyed by fire

1880s

• Born 1881: Juan Ramon Jimenez (poet)

• Born 1881: Charles Wakefield Cadman (composer)

1900s

• 1906: "O Holy Night" was played on the world's first radio program broadcast, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts

• 1906: Canadian-born Reginald A. Fessenden sent the first extended radio broadcast from Brant Rock, Massachusetts

1910s

• 1914: Unofficial Christmas truce began in areas of the Western Front during World War I

1920s

• Born 1922: Ava Gardner (actress)

• Born 1929: Mary Higgins Clark (author)

1930s

• Born 1930: Robert Joffrey (dancer)

1950s

• 1955: CONAD (later, NORAD) began to track Santa Claus

1970s

• Born 1971: Ricky Martin (singer)

• Born 1974: Ryan Seacrest (television host)

1980s

• Died 1984: Peter Lawford (actor)

2000s

• 2004: Catcher Jason Varitek was named captain of the Boston Red Sox

• Died 2005: Michael Vale (actor)

2010s

• Died 2011: Cheetah (chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s)

• Died 2012: Charles Durning (actor)

• Died 2012: Jack Klugman (actor)

• Born 2012: Pepper (Bolivian gray titi monkey)