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Published December 19, 2007Views: 1575
A few people you may know that were born and died on Christmas Day + Some pretty neat Christmas Facts
People born on Christmas Day
1642 - Sir Isaac Newton (mathematician)
1821 - Clara Barton (nurse: founder of American Red Cross)
1887 - Conrad Hilton (hotel magnate)
1899 - Humphrey Bogart
1924 - Rod Serling
1932 - Little Richard
1946 - Jimmy Buffett
1946 - Larry Csonka
1948 - Barbara Mandrell
1949 - Sissy (Mary) Spacek
People that died on Christmas Day
1946 - W[illiam] C[laude] Fields
1977 - Charlie Chaplin
1979 - Joan Blondell
1989 - Billy Martin
1995 - Dean Martin
1996 - Jon Benet Ramsey
1997 - Denver Pyle
A few interesting Christmas facts
"White Christmas" (1954), starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, was the first movie to be made in Vista Vision, a deep-focus process.
"The Nutcracker" is the name for the ballet performed around Christmas time each year. "The Nutcracker Suite" is the title of the music Tchaikovsky wrote.
"Wassail" comes from the Old Norse "ves heill"--to be of good health. This evolved into the tradition of visiting neighbors on Christmas Eve and drinking to their health.
A Christmas club, a savings account in which a person deposits a fixed amount of money regularly to be used at Christmas for shopping, came about around 1905.
Alabama was the first state to recognize Christmas as an official holiday. This tradition began in 1836.
Although many believe the Friday after Thanksgiving is the busiest shopping day of the year, it is not. It is the fifth to tenth busiest day. The Friday and Saturday before Christmas are the two busiest shopping days of the year.
An average household in America will mail out 28 Christmas cards each year and see 28 eight cards return in their place.
Before settling on the name of Tiny Tim for his character in "A Christmas Carol," three other alliterative names were considered by Charles Dickens. They were Little Larry, Puny Pete, and Small Sam.
Charles Dickens' initial choice for Scrooge's statement "Bah Humbug" was "Bah Christmas."
Child singer Jimmy Boyd was 12 years and 11 months old when he sang the Christmas favorite, "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus." The song hit the top of the pop charts.
During the Christmas buying season, Visa cards alone are used an average of 5,340 times every minute in the United States.
Electric Christmas tree lights were first used in 1895. The idea for using electric Christmas lights came from an American, Ralph E. Morris. The new lights proved safer than the traditional candles.
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