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1818 "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day
1851, fire devastated the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., destroying about 35,000 volumes.
1865 Several Confederate veterans form Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn
1871, Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Aida" had its world premiere
1964 Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek
1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts, orbiting the moon, read passages from the Old Testament Book of Genesis during a Christmas Eve telecast.
1979 - the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978
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