Daily Calendar for Saturday, December 25, 2021
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Saturday, December 25, 2021
Died
- Samuel de Champlain (explorer) –
- W.C. Fields (actor) –
- Charlie Chaplin (actor) –
- Billy Martin (baseball player) –
- Dean Martin (singer & actor) –
- James Brown (singer; the Godfather of Soul”“) –
- George Michael (singer, songwriter) –
Born
- William Collins (English poet) –
- Clara Barton (founder of the American Red Cross) –
- Humphrey Bogart (actor) –
- Cab Calloway (musician) –
- Rod Serling (author) –
- Gary Sandy (actor) –
- Jimmy Buffet (singer) –
- Sissy Spacek (actress) –
- Annie Lennox (singer) –
- Dido (singer) –
- Justin Trudeau (Canadian prime minister) –
Events
- Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria, abandoned off the coast of Hispaniola –
- From the Pennsylvania side, General George Washington’s troops crossed the icy Delaware River at night during a winter storm for a surprise attack against a Hessian garrison in Trenton, New Jersey (American Revolutionary War) –
- Bytown (Ottawa) and Prescott Railway opened in Ontario –
- Union Stock Yards opens giving the south side of Chicago a distinctive smell –
- Pansy blossoms picked, Manhattan, Montana –
- Comic strip hero Dick Tracy married Tess Trueheart –
Weather
- A chilly -57 degrees F at Fort Smith, Northwest Territories –
- White Christmas from central North Carolina to New England in wake of major snowstorm, even coastal Virginia was white –
- Temperatures throughout northern New England averaged -39 degrees F –
- A Christmas Day mudslide ran through St. Sophia Camp, San Bernardino, California –
- 1.3” snow fell in Atlanta, Georgia –