Saturday, November 22, 2014

25 December History and Importance of The Day

Christmas
Merry Christmas

336 – First documentary sign of Christmas celebration in ancient Rome
496 - French king Clovis baptised
http://www.heritage-history.com/www/heritage-books.php?Dir=books&author=evans&book=oldtime&story=clovis
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/496clovis.asp
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2002165

800 - Pope Leo III crowned Charles the Great (Charlemagne) as Roman emperor

1599 - The city of Natal, Brazil was founded.
1809 – Dr. Ephraim McDowell performs the first ovariotomy, removing a 22 pound tumor.
1922 - Lenin dictated his "Political testament"
1926 - Hirohito became emperor of Japan (1926-1989
1947 – The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect.
1989 – Deposed President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, First-Deputy Prime-Minister Elena Ceaușescu are condemned to death and executed after a summary trial.


Birthdays

1642 – Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (d. 1727)
1876 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
1904 – Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
1970 – Nagma, Indian actress
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25 December in  History of India

25 December Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management


World History - Video Lecture 7
Richard Bulliet - Columbia University
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BBC News - 25 Dec

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