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Today, December 23, 2025
December 23: National Pfeffernusse Day:
-- Today is dedicated to the tasty cookie so popular at
Christmastime called Pfeffernuss (plural, Pfeffernusse). This
spice delicacy is believed to have originated in Germany, but it
is also very popular in Denmark and the Netherlands. It is a
holiday treat that has been an integral part of Yuletide
celebrations like St. Nicholas Day and Christmas. National
Pfeffernusse Day is a day to make your own Pfeffernusse and enjoy
the tasty delicacy with friends and family. Pfeffernusse, also
known as 'pepernoten' or peppernuts, originated from Central
Europe. A confectioner from Offenbach am Main, named Johann
Fleischmann, is believed to have created the recipe in 1753. Since
then, the cookie became very popular, attracting the interest of
so many people, including renowned individuals like Felix
Mendelssohn. Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands are the
countries most popularly known for this delicacy. In North
America, the ethnic Mennonites are also very fond of pfeffernusse.
Today, the recipe is widely available and the cookie is widely
consumed around the world. However, pfeffernusse is traditionally
reserved for the holiday period, around December. This is in
keeping with the tradition of its origins, as the cookie has been
associated with the celebration of Saint Nicholas Day and
Christmas. The traditional recipe consists of nutmeg, cinnamon,
cloves, ginger, black pepper, mace, anise, sugar, butter, eggs,
and flour. Popular nuts such as walnuts and almonds are also used
to give the cookie some flavor. Leavening agents are applied to
the mixture, kneaded, and then baked. They usually come out hard
from the oven but would soften after a few days. Also, they are
tiny and are sometimes shaped like nuts, which is probably why
they are called peppernuts. Nowadays, bakers make alterations to
this recipe to include some other ingredients or remove some
existing ones. While they generally have a spicy taste, you can
easily adjust the amount of spice you'd want. On National
Pfeffernusse Day, homemade peppernuts are made available for the
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Today, December 23, 2025
December 23: Christmas Eve Eve: -- The
day before Christmas Eve. All "Eve" holidays are great
because the day does not have to live up to the expectation of the
real holiday. People are also usually off work on "Eves"
so it is like everyones Friday night! It's also the day that you
realize Christmas is only 2 days away, and you start panicking
because you haven't bought all your gifts yet! In order to avoid
the Christmas eve rush, everybody does their last minute Christmas
shopping on Christmas Eve Eve, the result being that December 23rd
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Today, December 23, 2025
December 23: National Christmas Movie
Marathon Day: -- Get ready to snuggle in your warm blanket with a
mug of hot chocolate and your favorite holiday snacks! There are
so many ways to get into the spirit of Christmas and we just love
curling up on the couch for a movie marathon with our favorite
Christmas movies. Whether you are in the mood for a classic or a
rom-com, it is surprising just how many genres are covered by
Christmas centered movies. Anyone up for a Christmas horror flick?
Just like we all start listening to Mariah Carey's 'All I want for
Christmas is you' in December every year, we all have our favorite
Christmas movies that we return to over and over again. It's such
a great way to get festive! Whether it is the mischievous Grinch
or the heartwarming stories in 'Love Actually,' Christmas movies
come packed with warm nostalgia. Christmas movies have been around
for a long time and range over a number of categories from romance
to comedy to horror. The world's first Christmas movie was a
silent short made in 1898, titled 'Santa Claus.' Directed by
George Albert Smith and at just over a minute long, this was the
first time that Santa Claus graced the screens. The film was about
two children who are eagerly waiting for Santa Claus to make his
appearance but are ordered to sleep. During the night, Santa
slides down the chimney and leaves presents for the children. With
jump cut scenes, double exposure, and superimposition, the short
movie was ahead of its time. A lot of the early Christmas films
were short movies. Following a couple of adaptations of Charles
Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol,' and a few war centred Christmas
flicks, 'It's a Wonderful Life' was a breakthrough Christmas movie
in 1946. Since then, Christmas has been the backdrop for many
movies; kids movies like 'Gremlins,' the 1990's blockbuster 'Home
Alone,' and 'Elf.' The choice of what to watch has expanded and
you won't be short of options on National Christmas Movie Marathon
Day. Whether your go-to is Elf, Home Alone, A Muppets Christmas
Carol, or all three, this is a holiday that is all about putting
your feet up and enjoying your favorite Christmas movies back to
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Today, December 23, 2025
December 23: National Roots Day: -- Today
gives people a chance to delve into and reflect on their family's
heritage, history, and ancestry. The holiday season is the perfect
time to learn about your ancestors and collect family information.
There is always that one family member who has taken on the role
of the family historian and eagerly shares memories and stories
around the dinner table. While it is a tedious process (if you
decide to really dig deep), it is worth tracing your lineage. You
may be related to Elvis Presley for all you know, or someone who
was part of an important historical event. Family comes first, and
the Christmas season is the ideal time for a traditional holiday
like Roots Day, illustrating the significance of family,
especially during these times. The festive season is the one time
of year in which the whole family comes together, so it is only
fitting that ancestral heritage is celebrated during this period.
Although the exact origin of this day is unknown, Roots Day has
been around for more than 40 years. The United States of America
has welcomed immigrants from all over the world. These settlers
changed their names and adopted the local cuisine and customs,
just like any other blue-blooded American. Such is the diversity,
that the nation has been referred to as a melting pot of cultural
assimilation. But as multiculturalism is becoming more and more
widespread, we'll naturally have an interest in our past. As we
learn about our family heritage, we often understand our parents
and grandparents better, and even ourselves. National Roots Day
celebrates this impulse to dig deeper into our ancestry. On this
day, memories are shared and assembled for a better understanding
of our predecessors and their lives. Before these memories fade
and the details start to get fuzzy, it is better to have them
assembled and linked. The participation of every generation is
encouraged in discovering the struggles and accomplishments of our
families' lineages. Stories of each generation whose efforts,
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Today, December 23, 2025
December 23, 1783: The Age Of
Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of
Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The American Enlightenment:
The American Revolution: The American Revolutionary War: George
Washington's Resignation As Commander-In-Chief: -- Following a
triumphant journey from New York to Annapolis, George Washington,
victorious commander in chief of the American Revolutionary Army,
appeared before Congress and voluntarily resigned his commission.
George Washington's resignation as Commander-In-Chief marked the
end of Washington's military service in the American Revolutionary
War and his return to civilian life at Mount Vernon. His voluntary
action has been described as "one of the nation's great acts
of statesmanship" and helped establish the precedent of
civilian control of the military. After the Treaty Of Paris ending
the war had been signed on September 3, 1783, and after the last
British troops left New York City on November 25, Washington
resigned his commission as Commander-In-Chief of the Continental
Army to the Congress of the Confederation, then meeting in the
Maryland State House at Annapolis, Maryland, on December 23 of the
same year. This followed his farewell to the Continental Army,
November 2 at Rockingham near Princeton, New Jersey, and his
farewell to his officers, December 4 at Fraunces Tavern in New
York City. Washington's resignation was depicted by John Trumbull
in 1824 with the life-size painting, General George Washington
Resigning His Commission, now on view in the United States Capitol
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Today, December 23, 2025
December 23, 1790: #BOTD: #HBD!
Jean-Francois Champollion, also known as Champollion Le Jeune
(French: Champollion The Younger), French scholar, philologist and
orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian
hieroglyphs and as the "Founder And Father Of Egyptology"
(d. March 4, 1832) is #born in Figeac in south-western Kingdom of
France. A child prodigy in philology, he gave his first public
paper on the decipherment of Demotic in 1806, and already as a
young man held many posts of honor in scientific circles, and
spoke Coptic and Arabic fluently. During the early 19th century,
French culture experienced a period of 'Egyptomania', brought on
by Napoleon's discoveries in Egypt during his campaign there
(1798-1801) which also brought to light the trilingual Rosetta
Stone. Scholars debated the age of Egyptian civilization and the
function and nature of hieroglyphic script, which language if any
it recorded, and the degree to which the signs were phonetic
(representing speech sounds) or ideographic (recording semantic
concepts directly). Many thought that the script was only used for
sacred and ritual functions, and that as such it was unlikely to
be decipherable since it was tied to esoteric and philosophical
ideas, and did not record historical information. The significance
of Champollion's decipherment was that he showed these assumptions
to be wrong, and made it possible to begin to retrieve many kinds
of information recorded by the ancient Egyptians. Champollion
lived in a period of political turmoil in France which
continuously threatened to disrupt his research in various ways.
During the Napoleonic Wars, he was able to avoid conscription, but
his Napoleonic allegiances meant that he was considered suspect by
the subsequent Royalist regime. His own actions, sometimes brash
and reckless, did not help his case. His relations with important
political and scientific figures of the time, such as Joseph
Fourier and Silvestre de Sacy helped him, although in some periods
he lived exiled from the scientific community. In 1820,
Champollion embarked in earnest on the project of decipherment of
hieroglyphic script, soon overshadowing the achievements of
British polymath Thomas Young who had made the first advances in
decipherment before 1819. In 1822, Champollion published his first
breakthrough in the decipherment of the Rosetta hieroglyphs,
showing that the Egyptian writing system was a combination of
phonetic and ideographic signs - the first such script discovered.
In 1824, he published a Precis in which he detailed a decipherment
of the hieroglyphic script demonstrating the values of its
phonetic and ideographic signs. In 1829, he traveled to Egypt
where he was able to read many hieroglyphic texts that had never
before been studied, and brought home a large body of new drawings
of hieroglyphic inscriptions. Home again he was given a
professorship in Egyptology, but only lectured a few times before
his health, ruined by the hardships of the Egyptian journey,
forced him to give up teaching. His grammar of Ancient Egyptian
was published posthumously. During his life as well as long after
his death, intense discussions over the merits of his decipherment
were carried out among Egyptologists. Some faulted him for not
having given sufficient credit to the early discoveries of Young,
accusing him of plagiarism, and others long disputed the accuracy
of his decipherments. But subsequent findings and confirmations of
his readings by scholars building on his results gradually led to
the general acceptance of his work. Although some still argue that
he should have acknowledged the contributions of Young, his
decipherment is now universally accepted and has been the basis
for all further developments in the field. Jean-Francois
Champollion died on March 4, 1832 of a stroke in Paris at the age
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EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: In a
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Today, December 23, 2025
December 23, 1888: Aesthetics: Art: Art
History: The Visual Arts: Painting: Vincent Van Gogh: Vincent Van
Gogh's Ear: -- Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh cuts off his left
ear with a razor after a confrontation with Paul Gaugin, who was
staying with van Gogh at The Yellow House in Arles, France. The
exact sequence of events which led to Van Gogh's mutilation of his
ear is not known. Gauguin claimed, fifteen years later, that the
night followed several instances of physically threatening
behaviour. It seems likely that Van Gogh had realised that Gauguin
was planning to leave due to van Gogh's erratic behavior. The
following days saw heavy rain, leading to the two men being shut
in the Yellow House. Gauguin reported that Van Gogh followed when
Gauguin left the house for a walk, and "rushed towards me, an
open razor in his hand". This account is uncorroborated.
After the altercation with Gauguin, Van Gogh returned to his room,
where he was assaulted by voices and severed his left ear with a
razor (either wholly or in part; accounts differ), causing severe
bleeding. He bandaged the wound, wrapped the ear in paper, and
delivered the package as a gift to a prostitute at a brothel Van
Gogh and Gauguin both frequented. Van Gogh was found unconscious
the next morning by a policeman and taken to hospital, where Felix
Rey, a young doctor still in training, treated him. The ear was
delivered to the hospital, but Rey did not attempt to reattach it
as too much time had passed. Van Gogh had no recollection of the
event, suggesting that he may have suffered an acute mental
breakdown. The hospital diagnosis was "acute mania with
generalised delirium", and within a few days the local police
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Today, December 23, 2025
December 23, 1923: #BOTD: #HBD! James
Stockdale, United States Navy vice admiral pilot, Medal Of Honor
recipient (d. July 5, 2005) is #born James Bond Stockdale in
Abingdon, Illinois. He was awarded the Medal Of Honor for his
service in the Vietnam War, during which he was an prisoner of war
for over seven years. Commander Stockdale was the senior naval
officer held captive in North Vietnam's infamous Hanoi Hilton
prison. He had led aerial attacks from the carrier USS Ticonderoga
(CVA-14) during the 1964 Gulf Of Tonkin Incident. On his next
deployment, while Commander of Carrier Air Wing Sixteen aboard the
carrier USS Oriskany (CV-34), his A-4 Skyhawk jet was shot down in
North Vietnam on September 9, 1965. He served as President of the
Naval War College from October 1977 until he retired from the Navy
in 1979. As Vice Admiral, Stockdale became the President for the
Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. Stockdale held
this position from 1979 to 1980. Stockdale was a candidate for
Vice President of the United States in the 1992 presidential
election, on Ross Perot's independent ticket. As he slowly
succumbed to Alzheimer's disease, Stockdale retired to Coronado,
California, where he died from the illness at age 81. Stockdale's
funeral service was held at the Naval Academy Chapel and he was
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Today, December 23, 2025
December 23, 1937: #BOTD: #HBD! Everett
Alvarez Jr., former United States Navy officer who endured one of
the longest periods as a prisoner of war (POW) in U.S. military
history, is #born in Salinas, California. Alvarez was the first
U.S. pilot to be shot down and detained during the Vietnam War and
spent over eight years in captivity, making him the second
longest-held U.S. POW (after U.S. Army Colonel Floyd James
Thompson's capitivity during the Vietnam War). On August 5, 1964,
during Operation Pierce Arrow - the very first American bombing
campaign of the Vietnam War - TJG. Alvarez's Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
was shot down in the immediate aftermath of what is known as the
Gulf Of Tonkin incident. Alvarez endured eight years and seven
months of brutal captivity by the North Vietnamese at the Hoa Lo
Prison (sarcastically known as the "Hanoi Hilton" by
fellow POWs), in which he was repeatedly beaten and tortured.
Alvarez was especially esteemed by his fellow prisoners because he
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Today, December 23, 2025
December 23, 1947: Aesthetics: Performing
Arts: Grand Finales: Theatre Grand Finales: United States Theatre
Grand Finales: Vaudeville: Vaudeville Grand Finales: -- Loew's
State Theatre, a movie theater at 1540 Broadway on Times Square in
New York City, becomes the last theater in Times Square to book
vaudeville acts when it hosts its last vaudeville show;
sentimental goodbyes were made from the stage in recognition of
the end of an era. Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety
entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century. A
vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral
intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition
or light poetry, interspersed with songs or ballets. It became
popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until
the early 1930s, but the idea of vaudeville's theatre changed
radically from its French antecedent. In some ways analogous to
music hall from Victorian Britain, a typical North American
vaudeville performance was made up of a series of separate,
unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts
have included popular and classical musicians, singers, dancers,
comedians, trained animals, magicians, ventriloquists, strongmen,
female and male impersonators, acrobats, clowns, illustrated
songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes,
lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies. A vaudeville
performer is often referred to as a "vaudevillian".
Vaudeville developed from many sources, also including the concert
saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary
American burlesque. Called "the heart of American show
business", vaudeville was one of the most popular types of
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Today, December 23, 2025
December 23, 1964: Broadcasting: The
History Of Broadcasting: Radio Broadcasting: The History Of Radio
Broadcasting: Premieres: Radio Premieres: British Radio Premieres:
Offshore Radio (Offshore Pirate Radio, Pirate Radio): Radio London
(Wonderful Radio London, Big L): -- Radio London, also known as
Big L and Wonderful Radio London, begins broadcasting, a "Fab
40" ( top 40) offshore commercial station that operated from
December 23, 1964 to August 14, 1967 from a ship anchored three
and a half miles (5.6 km) off Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, England in
the North Sea, the MV Galaxy, a former Second World War United
States Navy minesweeper originally named USS Density; its offices
were in the West End of London at 17 Curzon Street, just off Park
Lane. The station, like other offshore radio operators, was dubbed
a pirate radio station. Pirate Radio In The United Kingdom has
been a popular and enduring radio medium since the 1960s, despite
expansions in licensed broadcasting, and the advent of both
digital radio and internet radio. Although it peaked in the 1960s
and again during the 1980s/1990s, it remains in existence today.
Having moved from transmitting from ships in the sea to tower
blocks across UK towns and cities, in 2009 the UK broadcasting
regulator Ofcom estimated more than 150 pirate radio stations were
still operating. The station was notable for helping to launch the
careers of various disc jockeys, many of whom who went on to work
at BBC Radio 1. Their disc jockeys included Chuck Blair, Tony
Blackburn, Pete Brady, Tony Brandon, Dave Cash (who also teamed up
to present a popular Kenny and Cash Show), Ian Damon, Chris
Denning, Dave Dennis, Pete Drummond, John Edward, Kenny Everett
(co-host of the Kenny and Cash Show, and ultimately fired for
continual on-air criticism of the religious programme, The World
Tomorrow), Graham Gill, Bill Hearne, Duncan Johnson, Paul Kaye
(who became the main news reader), Lorne King, "Marshall"
Mike Lennox, John Peel (see The Perfumed Garden), Earl Richmond,
Mark Roman, John Sedd, Keith Skues, Ed Stewart, Norman St. John,
Tommy Vance (who came to the station via Radio Caroline South and
had been on KHJ Los Angeles), Richard Warner, Willy Walker, Alan
West, Tony Windsor (who had begun his offshore career with Radio
Atlanta) and John Yorke. In August 1966, the Beatles began their
last US concert tour. After the storm John Lennon's "more
popular than Jesus" comment caused in the US, the group's
reception was a cause for speculation - and the Beatles'
management arranged for British journalists to accompany them.
Radio London's Kenny Everett (a Liverpudlian), Caroline's Jerry
Leighton, and Swinging Radio England's Ron O'Quinn were invited.
Because the UK Post Office - at that time the country's monopoly
telephone service provider - had cut ship-to-shore communication
with pirate vessels, Everett had to call a number on land. Paul
Kaye would go ashore, take the call in Harwich and tape the
conversation before heading back to the ship, where the recording
was edited and music inserted to make a 30-minute programme,
sponsored by Bassett's, whose Jelly Babies were allegedly the
Beatles' favourite. The shows went out each evening at 7.30 for 40
days of the tour. In 1967, Radio London got an eight-day UK
exclusive on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, playing it
first on May 12, 1967; the album was not in the shops in the UK
until June 1, 1967. Radio London went off air following the
introduction of The Marine, & C., Broadcasting (Offences) Act
1967 at midnight on Monday August 14, "The Day The Music
Died" in the UK, which made it illegal to supply or assist
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Today, December 23, 2025
December 23, 1966: Aesthetics: Performing
Arts: Finales: Television Finales: British Television Finales: --
Ready Steady Go!, also known as RSG!, the British rock/pop music
television programme that was broadcast every Friday evening
beginning August 9, 1963, broadcasts its last show. Ready Steady
Go! was conceived by Elkan Allan, head of Rediffusion TV, and
presented by Dusty Springfield, Keith Fordyce, Cathy McGowan,
David Gell and Michael Aldred. Allan wanted a light entertainment
programme different from the low-brow style of light entertainment
transmitted by ATV. The programme was produced without scenery or
costumes and with a minimum of choreography and make-up. Allan
recruited a fellow journalist, Francis Hitching, as producer.
Hitching became a major figure in light entertainment in the
1960s. Robert Fleming was the first director, followed by the
documentary director Rollo Gamble, then Michael Lindsay-Hogg,
Daphne Shadwell and Peter Croft. The programme was produced by
Associated-Rediffusion, the weekday ITV contractor for London,
called Rediffusion-London after 1964. The live show was eventually
networked nationally. The show gained its highest ratings on March
20, 1964 when it featured the Beatles being interviewed and
performing "It Won't Be Long", "You Can't Do That"
and "Can't Buy Me Love" - the last a hit at the time. On
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Today, December 23, 2025
December 23, 1968: Korea: The History Of
Korea: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War
In Asia: The Korean Conflict: The Pueblo Incident (The Pueblo
Crisis): -- The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after
eleven months of internment in North Korea. The USS Pueblo
(AGER-2) is a Banner-class environmental research ship, attached
to Navy intelligence as a spy ship, which was attacked and
captured by North Korean forces on 23 January 1968, in what is
known today as the "Pueblo Incident" or alternatively,
as the "Pueblo Crisis". The seizure of the U.S. Navy
ship and its 83 crew members, one of whom was killed in the
attack, came less than a week after President Lyndon B. Johnson's
State Of The Union Address to the United States Congress, a week
before the start of the Tet Offensive in South Vietnam during the
Vietnam War, and three days after 31 men of North Korea's KPA Unit
124 had crossed the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and killed 26
South Koreans in an attempt to attack the South Korean Blue House
(executive mansion) in the capital Seoul. The taking of Pueblo and
the abuse and torture of its crew during the subsequent 11-month
prisoner drama became a major Cold War incident, raising tensions
between the western democracies and the Soviet Union and China.
North Korea stated that Pueblo deliberately entered their
territorial waters 7.6 nautical miles away from Ryo Island, and
that the logbook shows that they intruded several times. However,
the United States maintains that the vessel was in international
waters at the time of the incident and that any purported evidence
supplied by North Korea to support its statements was fabricated.
Pueblo, still held by North Korea today, officially remains a
commissioned vessel of the United States Navy. Since early 2013,
the ship has been moored along the Potong River in Pyongyang, and
used there as a museum ship at the Pyongyang Victorious War
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Today, December 23, 2025
December 23: HumanLight: -- A secular
Humanist holiday that celebrates the human values of compassion,
reason, hope, and humanity are celebrated and expressed on this
holiday. Did you know that HumanLight is a holiday that is not
rooted in any existing religious tradition? Yes! This day is all
about the light of human reason and illuminating a positive vision
of a happy and peaceful world. Most people celebrate this day by
sharing a meal with friends and family, lighting a candle, or even
doing charity work. However one chooses to celebrate, core human
values are always at the center. HumanLight parties and
celebrations are popular all over the world in the holiday season.
The main aim of this holiday is to celebrate humanity and to
promote a world where only peace and positivity prevail. The
history of the origin of HumanLight is an interesting story. This
day was created to provide a humanist celebration during the
holiday season of the western world. It was founded by leaders of
the "New Jersey Humanist Network" in 2001 to empower
secular people in commemorating the December holiday season
without disturbing any other holidays - still being in the thick
of the holiday season. This is also the main reason why December
23 was selected as HumanLight Day. The very first public
celebration was held in December 2001 in Verona, New Jersey under
the leadership of Dr. Paul Kurtz. From then onwards, for all these
years, various secular, humanist, and atheist organizations and
individuals have adopted HumanLight as a part of their December
traditions. But it was only in 2004, that the "American
Humanist Association" recognized HumanLight as a critical
event that contributes to the growth and development of humanist
communities. HumanLight aims to encourage the celebration and
expression of people's beliefs, no matter if they are different
from each other. The holiday does not focus on what people do not
believe in. This is a celebration event for all those who are
nontheists, nonreligious, freethinkers, atheists, and humanists
who value humanity more than anything else. So, celebrate
HumanLight and build the humanist community!
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Hirohito: Behind The Myth War Responsiblity MP4 Download DVD
Today, December 23, 2025December 23: The Birthday Of Emperor
Akihito Day: -- December 23, 1933: Japanese Emperor Akihito was
#born in Tokyo. He is the 125th Emperor of his line according to
Japan's traditional order of succession. Akihito succeeded to the
Chrysanthemum Throne upon his father Emperor Showa (Hirohito)'
death on January 7, 1989. Akihito abdicated in 2019, citing his
advanced age and declining health, and assumed the title Emperor
Emeritus (Japanese: Joko, "Retired Emperor"). He was
succeeded by his elder son, Naruhito. A new era, Reiwa, was then
established. Akihito is the longest-lived verifiable Japanese
emperor in recorded history. During his reign 17 prime ministers
served, beginning with Noboru Takeshita and ending with Shinzo
Abe.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Machine That Changed The World: The Computer DVD MP4 Download
Today, December 23, 2025December 23, 1947: The History Of
Electronics: The History Of Electronic Components: The History Of
Semiconductors: The History Of Semiconductor Devices: Great
Inventions: The Transistor: -- The transistor is first
demonstrated by Bell Laboratories by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain
and William Shockley, who shared the Nobel Prize for their
invention which sparked a worldwide revolution in electronics.
From November 17, 1947, to December 23, 1947, John Bardeen and
Walter Brattain at AT & T's Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New
Jersey, performed experiments and observed that when two gold
point contacts were applied to a crystal of germanium, a signal
was produced with the output power greater than the input. Solid
State Physics Group leader William Shockley saw the potential in
this, and over the next few months worked to greatly expand the
knowledge of semiconductors. The term transistor was coined by
John R. Pierce as a contraction of the term transresistance.
According to Lillian Hoddeson and Vicki Daitch, Shockley had
proposed that Bell Labs' first patent for a transistor should be
based on the field-effect and that he be named as the inventor.
Having unearthed Lilienfeld's patents that went into obscurity
years earlier, lawyers at Bell Labs advised against Shockley's
proposal because the idea of a field-effect transistor that used
an electric field as a "grid" was not new. Instead, what
Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley invented in 1947 was the first
point-contact transistor. In acknowledgement of this
accomplishment, Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain were jointly
awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their researches
on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect".
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Dragnet! Jack Webb Old Time Radio Series MP3 Set DVD, Download,
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Today, December 23, 2025December 23, 1982: #DOTD: #RIP: Jack
Webb, American actor, television producer, director and
screenwriter (b. April 2, 1920) #dies in the early morning hours
of Thursday of an apparent heart attack in West Hollywood,
California at age 62. He is interred at Sheltering Hills Plot
1999, Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, and
was given a funeral with full Los Angeles police honors. On Webb's
death, Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates announced that badge
number 714, which was used by Joe Friday in Dragnet, would be
retired. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley ordered all flags lowered
to half staff in Webb's honor for a day, and Webb was buried with
a replica LAPD badge bearing the rank of sergeant and the number
714. John Randolph Webb is most famous for his role as Sgt. Joe
Friday in the Dragnet franchise (which he also created). He was
the founder of his own production company, Mark VII Limited. Jack
Webb was born in Santa Monica, California, son of Samuel Chester
Webb and Margaret (nee Smith) Webb. He grew up in the Bunker Hill
section of Los Angeles. His father left home before Webb was born,
and Webb never knew him. Webb was raised in the Roman Catholic
faith of his mother, who was of Irish and Native American descent.
One of the tenants in his mother's boarding house was a former
jazz musician, who began Webb's lifelong interest in jazz by
giving him a recording of Bix Beiderbecke's "At the Jazz Band
Ball." In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Webb lived in the
parish of Our Lady of Loretto Church and attended Our Lady of
Loretto Elementary School in Echo Park, where he served as an
altar boy. He then attended Belmont High School, near downtown Los
Angeles. Webb was elected student-body president of his high
school. He wrote to Belmont's student body in the 1938 edition of
its yearbook, Campanile, "You who showed me the magnificent
warmth of friendship which I know, and you know, I will carry with
me forever." Webb attended St. John's University, Minnesota,
where he studied art. During World War II, Webb enlisted in the
United States Army Air Corps, but he "washed out" of
flight training. He later received a hardship discharge because he
was the primary financial support for both his mother and
grandmother. Following his discharge, he moved to San Francisco,
where a wartime shortage of announcers led to a temporary
appointment to his own radio show on ABC's KGO Radio. The Jack
Webb Show was a half-hour comedy that had a limited run on ABC
radio in 1946. Prior to that, he had a one-man program, One Out of
Seven, on KGO in which he dramatized a news story from the
previous week. By 1949, he had abandoned comedy for drama, and
starred in Pat Novak for Hire, a radio show originating from KFRC
about a man who worked as an unlicensed private detective. The
program co-starred Raymond Burr. Pat Novak was notable for writing
that imitated the hard-boiled style of such writers as Raymond
Chandler. Webb's radio shows included Johnny Madero, Pier 23, Jeff
Regan, Investigator, Murder and Mr. Malone, Pete Kelly's Blues,
and One Out of Seven. Webb provided all of the voices on One Out
of Seven, often vigorously attacking racial prejudice. Webb's most
famous motion-picture role was as the combat-hardened Marine Corps
drill instructor at Parris Island in the 1957 film The D.I., with
Don Dubbins as a callow Marine private. Webb's hard-nosed approach
to this role, that of Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant James
Moore, would be reflected in much of his later acting. Webb was
approached to play the role of Vernon Wormer, Dean of Faber
College, in National Lampoon's Animal House, but he turned it
down, saying "the movie didn't make any damn sense". In
1968, Webb and his production partner R.A. Cinader launched
Adam-12 on NBC. A spinoff of Dragnet, Adam-12 starred Martin
Milner and Kent McCord as a pair of LAPD beat cops, and followed
their escapades while on patrol. Emergency spun off of Adam-12.
Webb cast his ex-wife, Julie London, as well as her second husband
and Dragnet ensemble player Bobby Troup, as head nurse Dixie
McCall and Dr. Joe Early. He also produced Project UFO, an
anthology based on the investigations into UFOs as compiled by
Project Bluebook that also ran for two seasons beginning in 1978.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Monster: A Portrait Of Stalin In Blood TV Series DVD, Download,
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Today, December 23, 2025December 23, 1953: #DOTD: Lavrentiy
Beria, Georgian-Russian general and Soviet politician, Russian
Minister of Internal Affairs, Marshal of the Soviet Union, chief
of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) during
World War II, Deputy Premier and Politburo (b. March 29, 1899)
#dies in Moscow aged 54 when he was executed by a gunshot through
the forehead by General Pavel Batitsky, who had to stuff a rag
into Beria's mouth to silence him. Beria's final moments bore
great similarity to those of his own predecessor, NKVD Chief
Nikolai Yezhov, who begged for his life before his execution in
1940. Beria's body was subsequently cremated and the remains
buried in a forest near Moscow. Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was born
in Merkheuli, near Sukhumi, in the Sukhum Okrug of the Kutais
Governorate (now Gulripshi District, de facto Republic of
Abkhazia, or Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire). Beria was
arrested on June 26, 1953 by Nikita Khrushchev and other members
of the Politburo less than two months after Stalin's death. Beria
was then held in a still undisclosed location near Moscow.
Accounts of Beria's fall vary considerably. By the most likely
account, Khrushchev prepared an elaborate ambush, convening a
meeting of the Presidium on 26 June, where he suddenly launched a
scathing attack on Beria, accusing him of being a traitor and spy
in the pay of British intelligence. Beria was taken completely by
surprise. He asked, "What's going on, Nikita Sergeyevich? Why
are you picking fleas in my trousers?" Molotov and others
quickly spoke against Beria one after the other, followed by a
motion by Khrushchev for his instant dismissal. When Beria finally
realized what was happening and plaintively appealed to Malenkov
to speak for him, his old friend and crony silently hung his head
and refused to meet his gaze. Malenkov pressed a button on his
desk as the pre-arranged signal to Marshal Georgy Zhukov and a
group of armed officers in a nearby room who burst in and arrested
Beria. Beria was taken first to the Moscow guardhouse and then to
the bunker of the headquarters of Moscow Military District.
Defence Minister Nikolai Bulganin ordered the Kantemirovskaya Tank
Division and Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Division to move into Moscow
to prevent security forces loyal to Beria from rescuing him. Many
of Beria's subordinates, proteges and associates were also
arrested, among them Vsevolod Merkulov, Bogdan Kobulov, Sergey
Goglidze, Vladimir Dekanozov, Pavel Meshik, and Lev Vlodzimirskiy.
Pravda did not announce Beria's arrest until 10 July, crediting it
to Malenkov and referring to Beria's "criminal activities
against the Party and the State.". Beria and the others were
tried by a special session of the Supreme Court of the Soviet
Union on 23 December 1953 with no defense counsel and no right of
appeal. Marshal Ivan Konev was the chairman of the court. At
Beria's trial, itbecame known that he had committed numerous rapes
during the years he was NKVD chief. Simon Sebag-Montefiore, a
biographer of Stalin, concluded the information "reveals a
sexual predator who used his power to indulge himself in obsessive
depravity.". The charges against Beria were three things: 1)
Treason. It was alleged that he had maintained secret connections
with foreign intelligence services. In particular, attempts to
initiate peace talks with Hitler in 1941 through the ambassador of
Bulgaria were classified as treason, though Beria had been acting
on the orders of Stalin and Molotov. It was also alleged that
Beria, who in 1942 helped organize the defense of the North
Caucasus, tried to let the Germans occupy the Caucasus. Beria's
suggestion to his assistants that to improve foreign relations it
was reasonable to transfer the Kaliningrad Oblast to Germany, part
of Karelia to Finland, the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic to
Romania and the Kuril Islands to Japan also formed part of the
allegations against him. 2) Terrorism. Beria's participation in
the Purge of the Red Army in 1941 was classified as an act of
terrorism. 3) Counter-revolutionary activity during the Russian
Civil War. In 1919 Beria worked in the security service of the
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. Beria maintained that he was
assigned to that work by the Hummet party, which subsequently
merged with the Adalat Party, the Ahrar Party, and the Baku
Bolsheviks to establish the Azerbaijan Communist Party. Having
been found guilty off all three accusations, Beria and all the
other defendants were sentenced to death on 23 December 1953. When
the death sentence was carried out, Beria pleaded on his knees for
mercy before collapsing to the floor and wailing and crying, but
to no avail. The other six defendants were executed by firing
squad on the same day the trial ended. Beria was executed
separately.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
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Today, December 23, 2025December 23, 2007: #DOTD: #RIP: Oscar
Peterson, African Canadian virtuoso jazz pianist and composer,
knowns "The Brown Bomber Of The Boogie-Woogie", "The
Maharaja Of The Keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P."
by friends, "The King Of Inside Swing" by colleagues,
considered one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time (b.
August 15, 1925) #dies of kidney failure at his home in
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, aged 82. He is buried at Saint
Peter's Anglican Church Cemetery in Erindale, Ontario, Canada.
Oscar Peterson was born Oscar Emmanuel Peterson in Montreal,
Quebec, to immigrants from the West Indies subregion of Saint
Kitts and Nevis and the British Virgin Islands. Oscar Emmanuel
Peterson CC CQ OOnt (CC: Order Of Canada, CQ: National Order Of
Quebec, OOnt: Order Of Ontario) released more than 200 recordings,
won seven Grammy Awards, as well as a lifetime achievement award
from the Recording Academy, and received numerous other awards and
honours. He played thousands of concerts worldwide in a career
lasting more than 60 years.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: WABC
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Today, December 23, 2025December 23, 1941: #BOTD: #HBD! Ron
Bushy, American drummer best known as a member of the rock band
Iron Butterfly and as the drum soloist on the band's iconic song
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" released on LP on June 14, 1968 and
as a single on July 31, 1968 (d August 29, 2021) is #born Ronald
Edgar Bushy in Washington, D.C.. Bushy was the only member of the
group to appear on all six of its studio albums. They are best
known for the 1968 hit "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", providing a
dramatic sound that led the way towards the development of hard
rock and heavy metal music. The song was originally written by the
band's vocalist and keyboardist Doug Ingle as "In The Garden
Of Eden", but as a result of singing the first draft whilst
intoxicated, the title was misheard by Bushy as
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", and the name of the song was thus
changed. Itwent to number thirty on the Billboard Hot 100, and
charted highest in the Netherlands, where it went to number seven.
Ron Bushy died in the morning at the UCLA Medical Center in Santa
Monica following a battle with esophageal cancer, at the age of
79. He is buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills,
California.
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Today, December 23, 2025December 23, 2020: ##DOTD: #RIP: Leslie
West, American singer, songwriter and guitarist. best known as a
founding member and co-lead vocalist of the hard rock band
Mountain (b. October 22, 1945) #dies two days after he went into
cardiac arrest on a Monday and was rushed to a hospital in nearby
Palm Coast, Florida where he never regained consciousness. After
being contacted by Rolling Stone, West's brother Larry West
confirmed that Leslie West had died, aged 75. His remains were
cremated, and the ashes given to his widow Jenni Maurer. Many
celebrities and rock musicians paid tribute to West on his death,
including Howard Stern, Brian May, Geezer Butler, Peter Frampton,
Joe Satriani, Neal Schon, David Coverdale, Vernon Reid, Tom
Morello, Slash, Joe Bonamassa, and Dee Snider, among others. Foo
Fighters also performed "Mississippi Queen" live on The
Howard Stern Show in tribute to West shortly after his passing.
Leslie West was born Leslie Weinstein into a Jewish family in
Forest Hills, Queens. He grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey, and in
East Meadow, Forest Hills, and Lawrence, New York. After his
parents divorced, he changed his surname to West. His musical
career began with the Vagrants, an R & B/blue-eyed soul-rock
band influenced by the likes of the Rascals that was one of the
few teenage garage rock acts to come out of the New York
metropolitan area itself (as opposed to the Bohemian Greenwich
Village scene of artists, poets, and affiliates of the Beat
Generation, which produced bands like the Fugs and the Velvet
Underground). The Vagrants had two minor hits in the Eastern
United States: 1966's "I Can't Make a Friend" and a
cover of Otis Redding's "Respect" the following year.
Some of the Vagrants' recordings were produced by Felix
Pappalardi, who was also working with Cream on their album
Disraeli Gears. In 1969, West and Pappalardi formed the pioneering
hard rock act Mountain, which was also the title of West's debut
solo album. Rolling Stone identified the band as a "louder
version of Cream". With Steve Knight on keyboards and
original drummer N. D. Smart, the band appeared on the second day
of the Woodstock Festival on Saturday, August 16, 1969, starting
an 11-song set at 9 pm. The band's original incarnation saw West
and Pappalardi sharing vocal duties and playing guitar and bass,
respectively. New drummer Corky Laing joined the band shortly
after Woodstock. They had success with "Mississippi Queen",
which reached No. 21 on the Billboard charts and No. 4 in Canada.
It was followed by "Theme For an Imaginary Western",
written by Cream bassist Jack Bruce. Mountain is one of the bands
considered to be forerunners of heavy metal. After Pappalardi left
Mountain to concentrate on production projects, West and Laing
produced two studio albums and a live release with Jack Bruce
under the name West, Bruce and Laing. West, along with keyboard
player Al Kooper of Blood, Sweat & Tears, recorded with the
Who during the March 1971 Who's Next New York sessions. Tracks
from the sessions included a cover of Marvin Gaye's "Baby
Don't You Do It," and early versions of "Love Ain't For
Keepin'" and the Who's signature track "Won't Get Fooled
Again". Though the tracks were not originally included on the
album (recording restarted in England a few months later without
West or Kooper), they appear as bonus tracks on the 1995 and 2003
reissues of Who's Next and on the 1998 reissue of Odds & Sods.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Don
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Today, December 23, 2025December 23, 1907: #BOTD: #HBD! Don
McNeill, American radio personality best known as the creator and
host of The Breakfast Club, which ran for 35 years (1933-1968),
and its successor television shows, Don McNeill's TV Club
(1950-1951) and The Breakfast Club television simulcast
(1954-1955), credited as the first performer to make morning talk
and variety a viable format in radio, and inspiring many local
shows ever since to refer themselves as The Breakfast Club (d. May
7, 1996) is #born Donald T. McNeill in Galena, Illinois, son of
Harry T. McNeill and Luella R. Weinberger. He was a first cousin
of United States Secretary Of Defense Caspar Weinberger as
McNeill's mother was the elder sister of Weinberger's father. The
family soon moved to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where McNeill graduated
from Marquette University in Milwaukee. McNeill began his radio
career in Milwaukee in 1928, first as a script editor and
announcer at The Milwaukee Sentinel's WISN, and later working for
crosstown competitor WTMJ, owned by Sentinel rival The Milwaukee
Journal. McNeill applied for a job at NBC and was sent to Chicago
to audition. He was assigned to host an unsponsored early morning
variety show called The Pepper Pot, which had an 8 AM time slot on
the NBC Blue Network (later to become ABC radio). McNeill
re-organized the hour show as The Breakfast Club, dividing it into
four segments he called "the four calls to breakfast."
The show premiered on June 23, 1933, with informal talk and jokes
based on topical events, and often included audience interviews.
In its final form, the show featured piano music and vocal groups
and soloists, with recurring comedy performers. McNeil gained a
sponsor, Swift and Company. Archie Bleyer, who led the band for
Arthur Godfrey's daily Arthur Godfrey Time CBS radio show had
founded Cadence Records in 1953. That year, Bleyer traveled to
Chicago to record some patriotic spoken word recordings by
McNeill. Although Breakfast Club ratings were below Godfrey's, the
host took umbrage that Bleyer had taken time off from his show to
record McNeill, who Godfrey considered a competitor. In October
1953 at roughly the same time Godfrey fired singer Julius LaRosa
on the air, Godfrey privately dismissed Bleyer for recording
McNeill. McNeill attempted to transfer the show to television as
Don McNeill's TV Club (1950-1951). The Breakfast Club was
simulcast on television in 1954-1955. McNeill appeared
occasionally on game shows, and in 1963 hosted a short-lived game
show Take Two, built around photo comparisons. McNeill's radio
series finally ended in 1968, when McNeill retired from
entertainment and public life. After his radio career ended,
McNeill taught communication arts classes at Marquette and Notre
Dame from 1970-72, represented the Deltona Corporation, Florida
land developers, from 1970-80, and served as a director of the
Sears Foundation and on the advisory boards of Notre Dame,
Marquette and Loyola University of Chicago. Don McNeill's
Breakfast Club was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1989.
McNeill died seven years later in 1996, aged 88. He is buried at
All Saints Catholic Cemetery And Mausoleum in Des Plaines,
Illinois.
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Today, December 23, 2025December 23, 1907: #BOTD: #HBD! James
Roosevelt, American general, Marine, Navy Cross recipient,
businessman, activist, and Democratic Party politician (d. August
13, 1991) is #born in New York City at 123 East 36th Street. He
was the eldest son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor
Roosevelt, and was named after his grandfather on his father's
side, James Roosevelt I. He attended the Potomac School and St.
Albans School in Washington, D.C., and the Groton School in
Massachusetts. At Groton, he rowed, played football, and was a
prefect in his senior year. After graduating in 1926, he attended
Harvard, where he rowed with the freshman and junior varsity
crews. At Harvard, he followed family traditions in joining the
Signet Society and Hasty Pudding Club, of which both his father
and his maternal granduncle and paternal fifth cousin once
removed, President Theodore Roosevelt, had been members, the Fly
Club, which his father had joined, and the Institute of the 1770.
He graduated from Harvard in 1930 and was elected permanent
treasurer of his class. After graduation, Roosevelt enrolled in
the Boston University School of Law. He also took a sales job with
the firm of Victor De Gerard of Boston in 1930, remaining with
that firm when it amalgamated with the John Paulding Meade Company
which, in turn, amalgamated with O'Brion, Russell and Company in
1932. Roosevelt abandoned his law studies within a year due to his
success at the firm. In 1932, he started his own insurance agency,
Roosevelt & Sargent, in partnership with John A. Sargent. As
president of Roosevelt & Sargent he made a substantial fortune
(about 500K USD (over 9M USD in 2018 USD). He resigned from the
firm in July 1937, when he officially went to work at the White
House as an official Secretary To The President for his father
until November 1938, but retained his half-ownership. Roosevelt
was elected a director of Boston Metropolitan Buildings, Inc. in
1933. He also served briefly as president of the National Grain
Yeast Corporation from May to November 1935. When American became
involved in the Second World War, despite occasionally
debilitating health problems, Roosevelt served with the 2nd
Raiders, both at Midway during The Battle Of Midway in early June
1942 and in the Raid On Makin Island on August 17-18, 1942, where
he and 22 others were awarded the Navy Cross. In October, he was
given command of the new 4th Raiders, but during training for an
upcoming combat operation he became so ill he had to be
hospitalized by February 1943. Beginning in August 1943, he served
in various staff positions for the duration of the war. He was
attached to and landed with the U.S. Army's 165th Regimental
Combat Team, 27th infantry Division during the invasion of The
Battle Of Makin on November 20-23, and was awarded the Silver Star
by the army. He was promoted to colonel on April 13, 1944. He was
released from active duty in August 1945 and was placed on the
inactive list in October 1945; that same month, he became a
Compatriot Of The Empire State Society of the Sons Of The American
Revolution. Roosevelt continued in the Marine Corps Reserve and
retired on October 1, 1959, with the advanced rank of Brigadier
General. Roosevelt suffered from flat feet, and was allowed to
wear sneakers while other Marines were required to wear
boots.James Roosevelt was later elected to the United States House
Of Representatives representing California, serving 5 terms from
1955 to 1965. James Roosevelt died in Newport Beach, California of
complications arising from a stroke and Parkinson's disease. He
was 83 and was the last surviving child of Franklin and Eleanor
Roosevelt. He is buried at Pacific View Memorial Park cemetery in
Corona Del Mar, California.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Victor
Borge: Then And Now DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, December 23, 2025( #JCKaelin here: I walked past him in
Greenwich Village in the early 1980s. He smiled generously; I was
flummoxed :) ) ========= December 23, 2000: #DOTD: #RIP: Victor
Borge, Danish-American comedian, pianist, and conductor who
achieved great popularity in radio and television in the United
States and Europe and whose mixing of classical music with comedy
earned him the nicknames "The Clown Prince of Denmark,"
"The Unmelancholy Dane," and "The Great Dane"
(b. January 3, 1909) #dies peacefully in his sleep at the age of
91 in Greenwich, Connecticut, a day after returning from a concert
in Denmark, thereby ending 75 years of entertaining. "It was
just his time to go," Frederikke Borge said. "He's been
missing my mother terribly", who had died only three months
earlier. His remains were cremated, and the ashes buried in two
places - one next to his wife at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich,
Connecticut, and the other at The Jewish Northern Cemetery in
Norrebro, Copenhagen, Denmark. He was born Borge Rosenbaum in
Copenhagen, Denmark, into an Ashkenazi Jewish family; his parents,
Bernhard and Frederikke (nee Lichtinger) Rosenbaum, were both
musicians: his father a violist in the Royal Danish Orchestra, and
his mother a pianist. Borge began piano lessons at the age of two,
and it was soon apparent that he was a prodigy. He gave his first
piano recital when he was eight years old, and in 1918 was awarded
a full scholarship at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, studying
under Olivo Krause. Later on, he was taught by Victor Schioler,
Liszt's student Frederic Lamond, and Busoni's pupil Egon Petri.
Borge played his first major concert in 1926 at the Danish Odd
Fellow Palaeet (The Odd Fellow's Lodge building) concert hall.
After a few years as a classical concert pianist, he started his
now famous "stand-up" act, with the signature blend of
piano music and jokes. He married the American Elsie Chilton in
1933; the same year he debuted with his revue acts. Borge started
touring extensively in Europe, where he began telling anti-Nazi
jokes. When the German armed forces occupied Denmark on April 9
1940, during World War II, Borge was playing a concert in Sweden
and managed to escape to Finland. He traveled to America on the
United States Army transport American Legion, the last neutral
ship to make it out of Petsamo, Finland, and arrived 28 August
1940, with only 20 USD (about 369 USD in 2021), with 3 USD going
to the customs fee. Disguised as a sailor, Borge returned to
Denmark once during the occupation to visit his dying mother. Even
though Borge did not speak a word of English upon arrival, he
quickly managed to adapt his jokes to the American audience,
learning English by watching movies. He took the name of Victor
Borge, and in 1941, he started on Rudy Vallee's radio show. He was
hired soon after by Bing Crosby for his Kraft Music Hall
programme. Borge quickly rose to fame, winning Best New Radio
Performer of the Year in 1942. Soon after the award, he was
offered film roles with stars such as Frank Sinatra (in Higher and
Higher). While hosting The Victor Borge Show on NBC beginning in
1946, he developed many of his trademarks, including repeatedly
announcing his intent to play a piece but getting "distracted"
by something or other, making comments about the audience, or
discussing the usefulness of Chopin's "Minute Waltz" as
an egg timer. He would also start out with some well-known
classical piece like Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" and
suddenly move into a harmonically similar pop or jazz tune, such
as Cole Porter's "Night and Day" or "Happy Birthday
to You."
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Best Of Spike Jones 3 Volume Set DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, December 23, 2025December 23, 2000: #DOTD: #RIP: Billy
Barty, American actor, comedian and activist (b. October 25, 1924)
#dies of heart failure in Glendale, California at age 76. He is
entombed in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Billy
Barty was born William John Bertanzetti in Millsboro,
Pennsylvania. In adult life, he stood three feet, nine inches, due
to cartilage-hair hypoplasia dwarfism, and because of his short
stature, he was often cast in movies opposite taller performers
for comic effect. He specialized in outspoken or wisecracking
characters. During the 1950s, he became a television star,
appearing regularly in the Spike Jones ensemble. In the early
1970s he was a staple in a variety of roles in children's TV
programs produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. Also an activist for
people with dwarfism, he founded the Little People of America
organization in 1957.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
American Adventure: TV History Series 1607-1876 DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, December 23, 2025December 23 (O.S. December 12), 1745:
#BOTD: #HBD! John Jay, American jurist, statesman, patriot,
diplomat and politician, Founding Father of the United States,
signatory of the Treaty Of Paris of 1783, second Governor of New
York, and the first Chief Justice of the United States from 1789
to 1795 (d. May 17, 1829) is #born to a prominent merchant family
in New York City, descended from Huguenoy who had come to New York
to escape religious persecution in France. He directed U.S.
foreign policy for much of the 1780s and was an important leader
of the Federalist Party after the ratification of the United
States Constitution in 1788. Jay was elected to the Second
Continental Congress, and he served as the President of the Second
Continental Congress. From 1779 to 1782, Jay served as the
ambassador to Spain, and he convinced Spain to provide financial
aid to the fledgling United States. He also served as a negotiator
of the Treaty Of Paris, in which Britain recognized American
independence. Following the end of the war, Jay served as
Secretary of Foreign Affairs, directing United States foreign
policy under the Articles Of Confederation government. He would
also serve as the first Secretary Of State on an interim basis. A
proponent of strong, centralized government, Jay worked to ratify
the United States Constitution in New York in 1788 by
pseudonymously writing five of the several The Federalist papers,
along with the main authors Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.
After the establishment of the new federal government, Jay was
appointed by President George Washington to become the first Chief
Justice of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1795. The Jay
Court experienced a light workload, deciding just four cases over
six years. In 1794, while serving as Chief Justice, Jay negotiated
the highly controversial Jay Treaty with Britain. Jay received a
handful of electoral votes in three of the first four presidential
elections, but never undertook a serious bid for the presidency.
Jay served as the Governor of New York from 1795 to 1801. Long an
opponent of slavery, he helped enact a law that provided for the
gradual emancipation of slaves, and the institution of slavery was
abolished in New York in Jay's lifetime. In the waning days of
President John Adams' administration, Jay was confirmed by the
Senate for another term as Chief Justice, but he declined the
position and retired to his farm home in Bedford, New York. On the
night of May 14, 1829, Jay was stricken with palsy, probably
caused by a stroke. He lived for three more days, dying at his
home at age 83, the last surviving President of the Continental
Congress and also the last surviving delegate to the First
Continental Congress. Jay had chosen to be buried in Rye, New
York, where he lived as a boy. In 1807, he had transferred the
remains of his wife Sarah Livingston and those of his colonial
ancestors from the family vault in the Bowery in Manhattan to Rye,
establishing a private cemetery. Today, the Jay Cemetery is an
integral part of the Boston Post Road Historic District, adjacent
to the historic Jay Estate. The Cemetery is maintained by the Jay
descendants and closed to the public. It is the oldest active
cemetery associated with a figure from the American Revolution.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Portraits Of The Presidency: POTUS Documentaries DVD, Download,
USB
Today, December 23, 2025December 23, 1913: Banking: Banking In
The United States: The Federal Reserve System: The Federal Reserve
Act: -- The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President
Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System. The Federal
Reserve Act is an Act of Congress that created and established the
Federal Reserve System (the central banking system of the United
States), and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve
Notes (commonly known as the US Dollar) as legal tender. As the
nation's central bank, the Federal Reserve System was chiefly
responsible for the execution of monetary policy, influencing the
lending and investing activities of commercial banks as well as
the cost and availability of money and credit.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Wings
Over The World: Aviation History Series DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, December 23, 2025December 23, 1939: #DOTD: Anthony Fokker,
Indonesian-born Dutch aviation pioneer, aircraft manufacturer,
pilot, engineer and businessman, founder of the Fokker Aircraft
Company, most famous for the fighter aircraft he produced in
Germany during the First World War such as the Eindecker
monoplanes, the Dr.1 triplane and the D.VII biplane, and for the
first practical forward-firing aircraft-mounted machine gun, an
invention which led directly to the phase of German air
superiority known as the Fokker Scourge (b. April 6, 1890) #dies
at age 49 in New York in 1939 from pneumococcal meningitis, after
a three-week-long illness. In 1940, his ashes were brought to
Westerveld Cemetery in Driehuis, North Holland, where they were
buried in the family grave. He was born Anton Herman Gerard Fokker
in Blitar, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), to Herman Fokker, a
Dutch coffee plantation owner. After the Treaty Of Versailles
forbade Germany to produce airplanes, Fokker moved his business to
the Netherlands. There his company was responsible for a variety
of successful aircraft including the Fokker trimotor, a successful
passenger aircraft of the inter-war years.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Von
Richthofen And Brown 1971 Red Baron Movie DVD, Download, USB
Today, December 23, 2025December 23, 1893: #BOTD: #HBD! Roy
Brown, Canadian flying ace of Royal Air Force (RAF) during the
First World War, credited with ten aerial victories. officially
credited Brown with shooting down Manfred Von Richthofen, alias
"The Red Baron" (d. March 9, 1944) is #born Arthur Roy
Brown in Carleton Place, 50 km (31 mi) west of Ottawa, Canada.
Arthur Roy Brown, DSC & Bar, though credited for this victory,
is now considered not to have been resposible for shooting Von
Richthofen down, as it is now believed by historians, doctors, and
ballistics experts that Richthofen was actually killed by a
machine gunner firing from the ground. Roy Brown died of a heart
attack in Stouffville, Ontario shortly after posing for a
photograph with a current Canadian flying ace, George Beurling,
aged 50. He is buried, with his wife, Edythe, in the Toronto
Necropolis.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Props
And Jets: Soviet Air Power Order Of Battle DVD, Download, USB
Today, December 23, 2025December 23, 1972: #DOTD: #RIP: Andrei
Tupolev, pioneering Russian aeronautical engineer, designer of the
Tupolev Tu-95 Bear turboprop-powered strategic bomber and the
Tupolev Tu-104 twinjet turbojet-powered Soviet airliner (b.
November 10, 1888) #dies in Moscow, Soviet Union at the age of 75
after a long illness. He is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery in
Moscow. Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev was born in Pustomazovo, a
village near the city of Kimry in Tver Governorate, Russian
Empire. Tupolev was a protege of Nikolay Zhukovsky, often called
the Father of Russian Aviation, founding father of modern aero-
and hydrodynamics and the first to undertake the study of airflow
at a time when his contemporaries scoffed at the idea of human
flight. Tupolev designed or oversaw the design of more than 100
types of civilian and military aircraft in the Soviet Union over
50 years, some of which set 78 world records. Tupolev produced
many notable designs such as the Tu-2, Tu-16, Tu-95, and Tu-104,
and the Tu-4 which was reverse engineered from the American Boeing
B-29. Tupolev was highly honoured in the Soviet Union and awarded
various titles and honours including the Hero of Socialist Labor
three times, Order of Lenin eight times, Order of the Red Banner
of Labour two times, made an academician of the Russian Academy of
Sciences in 1953, and a Colonel-General of the Soviet Air Force in
1968. Tupolev was also honoured outside the Soviet Union as an
honorary member of the British Royal Aeronautical Society and the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in recognition
of his work. In 2018, Vnukovo International Airport was formally
renamed to Vnukovo Andrei Tupolev International Airport in his
honour.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: War
Jets: The Rockwell B-1 Lancer Heavy Bomber DVD, MP4, USB Stick
Today, December 23, 2025December 23, 1974: Aviation: The History
Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Maiden Flights:
Military Aviation Maiden Flights: -- The First flight of the
Rockwell B-1 Lancer, a supersonic variable-sweep wing, heavy
bomber ultimately used by the United States Air Force. The B-1
received the official name "Lancer" on March 15, 1990;
however, the bomber has been commonly called the "Bone",
a nickname that appears to stem from an early newspaper article on
the aircraft wherein its name was phonetically spelled out as
"B-ONE" ("B-1" with the hyphen inadvertently
omitted). It is one of three strategic bombers serving in the U.S.
Air Force fleet along with the B-2 Spirit and the B-52
Stratofortress as of 2022. The B-1 was first envisioned in the
1960s as a platform that would combine the Mach 2 speed of the
B-58 Hustler with the range and payload of the B-52, and was meant
to ultimately replace both bombers. After a long series of
studies, Rockwell International (now part of Boeing) won the
design contest for what emerged as the B-1A. This version had a
top speed of Mach 2.2 at high altitude and the capability of
flying for long distances at Mach 0.85 at very low altitudes. The
combination of the high cost of the aircraft, the introduction of
the AGM-86 cruise missile that flew the same basic speed and
distance, and early work on the stealth bomber all significantly
reduced the need for the B-1. This led to the program being
canceled in 1977, after the B-1A prototypes had been built. The
program was restarted in 1981, largely as an interim measure due
to delays in the B-2 stealth bomber program. This led to a
redesign as the B-1B, which differed from the B-1A by having a
lower top speed of Mach 1.25 at high altitude, but improved the
low-altitude speed to Mach 0.96. The electronics were also
extensively improved, and the airframe was improved to allow
takeoff with the maximum possible fuel and weapons load.
Deliveries of the B-1B began in 1986 and formally entered service
with Strategic Air Command (SAC) as a nuclear bomber that same
year. By 1988, all 100 aircraft had been delivered. With the
disestablishment of SAC and its reassignment to the Air Combat
Command in 1992, the B-1B was converted for a conventional bombing
role. It first served in combat during Operation Desert Fox in
1998 and again during the NATO action in Kosovo the following
year. The B-1B has supported U.S. and NATO military forces in
Afghanistan and Iraq. The Air Force has an inventory of 45 B-1Bs
as of 2021. The Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider is to begin replacing
the B-1B after 2025; all B-1s are planned to be retired by 2036.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Attack
In The Pacific (1945) + Eric Sevareid Bonus MP4 Download DVD
Today, December 23, 2025December 23, 1941: World War II: The
Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Asiatic-Pacific Theater,
The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of
World War II: The Battle Of Wake Island: -- After 15 days of
fighting that began with the Japanese invasion of Wake Island on
December 8, defending American forces surrender to the Imperial
Japanese Army and the island is occupied by forces of the Empire
Of Japan. The Battle of Wake Island was fought on and around the
atoll formed by Wake Island and its minor islets of Peale and
Wilkes Islands by the air, land, and naval forces of the Japanese
Empire against those of the United States, with Marines playing a
prominent role on both sides. The island was held by the Japanese
for the duration of the Pacific War theater of World War II; the
remaining Japanese garrison on the island surrendered to a
detachment of United States Marines on September 4, 1945, after
the earlier surrender on September 2, 1945 on the battleship
USS_Missouri in Tokyo Bay to General Douglas MacArthur.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
March Of Time Newsreel Set 1933-46 All 3 TV Series DVD, MP4, USB
Today, December 23, 2025December 23, 1948: #DOTD: Hideki Tojo,
general of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), the leader of the
Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 27th Prime Minister
of Japan during much of World War II, from October 17, 1941, to
July 22, 1944 (b. December 30, 1884) #dies when he is hanged for
war crimes along with six other Japanese wartime military leaders
at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, with the sentence carried out by the
U.S. 8th Army. He is buried in Zoshigaya Cemetery in Toshima-ku,
Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. Hideki Tojo was born Tojo Hideki in the
Kojimachi district of Tokyo. Japan. On November 12, the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East, also known as
the Tokyo Trials or the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, sentenced Tojo
to death for his role in World War II, having committed "Class
A" crimes, which were reserved for those who participated in
a joint conspiracy to start and wage war. The charges covered a
wide range of crimes including prisoner abuse, rape, sexual
slavery, torture, ill-treatment of labourers, execution without
trial and inhumane medical experiments. As Prime Minister Of
Japan, Hideki Tojo was responsible for ordering the attack on
Pearl Harbor, which initiated war between Japan and the United
States, although planning for it had begun in April 1941, before
he entered office. Politically, he was fascist, nationalist, and
militarist, and was nicknamed " The Razor" for his
reputation of having a sharp and legalistic mind capable of quick
decision-making. He was a virtual mortal enemy of Isoroku
Yamamoto, Japanese Marshal Admiral of the Navy, who despite having
planned the Pearl Harbor attack was himself against going to a war
with the United States that Tojo actively sought. On July 18,
1944, he resigned as Prime Minister of Japan after the Japanese
defeat in Battle Of Saipan and the rest of the numerous setbacks
in the war effort.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Hansel
And Gretel (1954) Engelbert Humperdinck Opera DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, December 23, 2025December 23, 1893: Aesthetics: Performing
Arts: Premieres: Theatre Premieres: Musical Premieres: Opera
Premieres: -- The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert
Humperdinck, German playwright and composer, is first performed in
Weimar, Germany, conducted by Richard Strauss. Humperdinck first
composed four songs to accompany a puppet show his nieces were
giving at home. Then, using a libretto by his sister Adelheid
Wette rather loosely based on the version of the fairy tale by the
Brothers Grimm, he composed a singspiel of 16 songs with piano
accompaniment and connecting dialogue. By January 1891 he had
begun working on a complete orchestration. The opera premiered in
Weimar on 23 December 1893, under the baton of Richard Strauss.
With its highly original synthesis of Wagnerian techniques and
traditional German folk songs, Hansel and Gretel was an instant
and overwhelming success. Hansel and Gretel has always been
Humperdinck's most popular work. In 1923 the Royal Opera House
(London) chose it for their first complete radio opera broadcast.
Eight years later, it was the first opera transmitted live from
the Metropolitan Opera (New York).
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