And the next date in the calendar is....

[MassRuss]

December 24, 1814 - War of 1812 officially ends with the Signing of The Treaty of Ghent, between US & Great Britain

 

[unloadonme]

25 December 1908 – Birth of Quentin Crisp.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Crisp

 

[MassRuss]

^^^^^^^I didn't know the old queen was a XMAS baby. I saw him a few times in NYC when he lived on 14th St back when I was a young queen!!

December 26, 1941. Churchill becomes 1st British PM to address joint session of Congress (known for his "if my father had been American, I might have gotten here on my own" quip)

 

[unloadonme]

27 December 1822 – Birth of Louis Pasteur.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur

 

[unloadonme]

28 December 1065 – Westminster Abbey is consecrated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Abbey

 

[MassRuss]

December 29. 1170 Thomas Beckett murdered in Canterbury Cathedral

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Beckett

 

[unloadonme]

30 December 1460 – Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne, was killed at the Battle of Wakefield.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Plantagenet,_3rd_Duke_of_York

 

[MassRuss]

December 31, 1857. Queen Victoria names Ottawa as Canada's capital.

 

[unloadonme]

Shall we go round again?

1 January 1877 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria

 

[MassRuss]

Sure, why not?

January 2, 1981. Peter Sutcliffe arrested as the Yorkshire Ripper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_Ripper

 

[unloadonme]

3 January 1795 – Death of Josiah Wedgwood.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Wedgwood

 

[MassRuss]

January 4, 1965. Poet T S Elliot dies @ 76.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_S_Elliot

 

[ChickenGuy]

Shall we go round again?

You've been almost single-handedly keeping this thread alive, old fellow. I rather abandoned it not long after I started.

Keep up the good work!

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January 5

1066: Edward the Confessor, last monarch of the House of Wessex, dies childless.

 

[MassRuss]

January 6, 1919 - Teddy Roosevelt dies @ 60, in Oyster Bay, LI NY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_roosevelt

 

[unloadonme]

7 January 1536 – Death of Catherine of Aragon, Queen Consort of King Henry VIII of England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon

 

[unloadonme]

8 January 1864 – Birth of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Albert_Victor,_Duke_of_Clarence_and_Avondale

 

[unloadonme]

9 January 1878 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_I_of_Italy

 

[unloadonme]

10 January 1863 – The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_10

 

[unloadonme]

11 January 1753 – Death of Sir Hans Sloane, physician and collector.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Sloane

 

[MassRuss]

January 12, 1876 - Author Jack London is born

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_london