Cook Visits Christmas Island
1777 James Cook is the first documented European to visit Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island
- 1818 Christmas carol "Silent Night" composed by Franz Xaver Gruber is first sung at St Nicholas Parish Church in Oberndorf, Austria
Ford's First Gasoline Engine
1893 Henry Ford completes his first useful petrol / gasoline fuelled engine
- 1901 Private companies are allowed to use the word "postcard" in the US; previously, they were labeled "Private Mailing Cards" and known as "souvenir cards"
- 1904 The London Coliseum Theatre of Varieties opens
- 1912 Irving Fisher patents archiving system with index cards
- 1922 BBC broadcasts the first British radio play "The Truth About Father Christmas"
- 1936 First radioactive isotope medicine is administered in Berkeley, California
- 1951 First opera commissioned for television - "Amahl and the Night Visitors" by Gian Carlo Menotti premieres on NBC with the NBC Opera Theater
- 1970 Walt Disney releases animated musical "The Aristocats" featuring voices of Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Hermione Baddeley, Sterling Holloway, and Scatman Crothers
- 1982 Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, defeats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic
John Paul II Opens Holy Door
1999 Opening of St Peter's Holy Door by Pope John Paul II in preparation for the Great Jubilee of the Third Millennium
- 2024 NASA's Parker Solar probe makes a record-breaking approach to the Sun, coming within 3.8 million miles (6 million kilometers) of the star [1]
Jubilee Year of Hope
2024 Pope Francis opens the Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, inaugurating the church's Jubilee Year of Hope [1]
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