Historical Events for 25th December 2018

1758 – Return of Halley’s comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch
1875 – Lambs Club in New York forms
1901 – Battle at Tweefontein: British force camped on a hill is surprised by a Boer attack at 2am
1923 – Imperial Theater opens at 249 W 45th St NYC
1933 – Another Christmas Day five-wicket haul by Clarrie Grimmett
1933 – Belgian Working people’s party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1973 – The ARPANET crashes when a programming bug causes all ARPANET traffic to be routed through the server at Harvard University, causing the server to freeze.
1973 – Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799,405 miles)
1979 – Ballon d’Or: Hamburg’s English forward Kevin Keegan wins his 2nd consecutive trophy as best football player in Europe; beats Bayern Munich forward Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Ajax sweeper Ruud Krol

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