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	Saturday, December 25th The 359th day of 2010. There are 6 days left in the year. Go to a previous date.

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Today's Highlights in History
See a larger version of this front page.		On Dec. 25, 1991, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on TV to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a Communist superpower that had already gone out of existence. (Go to article.)On Dec. 25, 1918, Anwar el-Sadat,the Egyptian president who won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a peace treaty with Israel, was born.Following his death on Oct. 6, 1981,his obituary appeared in The Times.(Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
		On December 25, 1866, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Santa Claus and Christmas.(See the cartoon and read an explanation.)

On this date in:
1066	William the Conqueror was crowned king of England.
1776	Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, N.J.
1818	"Silent Night" was performed for the first time, at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorff, Austria.
1821	Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross, was born in Oxford, Mass.
1868	President Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional pardon to everyone involved in the Southern rebellion that resulted in the Civil War.
1926	Hirohito became emperor of Japan, succeeding his father, Emperor Yoshihito.
1977	Comedian Charlie Chaplin died at age 88.
1989	Ousted Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were executed.
1989	Former New York Yankees player and manager Billy Martin, 61, died when the pickup truck he was riding in crashed.
1990	The World Wide Web was born as computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau created the world's first hyperlinked Web page.
1995	Singer Dean Martin died at age 78.
2002	Katie Hnida became the first woman to play in a Division I football game when she attempted an extra point for New Mexico against UCLA in the Las Vegas Bowl.
2006	Soul singer James Brown died at age 73.
2009	Passengers aboard a Northwest Airlines flight foiled an attempt to blow up the plane as it was landing in Detroit by seizing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian accused of trying to set off explosives in his underwear.

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Current Birthdays

Sissy Spacek turns 61 years old today.

AP Photo/Evan Agostini Actress Sissy Spacek turns 61 years old today.

65 Gary Sandy Actor ("WKRP In Cincinnati") 64 Jimmy Buffet Rock musician 64 Larry Csonka Football Hall of Famer 62 Barbara Mandrell Country singer 60 Karl Rove Former White House aide 58 CCH Pounder Actress ("The Shield") 56 Annie Lennox Rock singer (Eurythmics) 52 Rickey Henderson Baseball Hall of Famer 52 Christina Romer Former chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers 39 Dido Rock singer 35 Hideki Okajima Baseball player 30 Ryan Shaw R&B singer

Historic Birthdays
Anwar el-Sadat
12/25/1918 - 10/6/1981 Egyptian president (1970-81); signed historic peace treaty with Israel  (Go to obit.)
50	Rod Serling 12/25/1924 - 6/28/1975 American television writer and producer
86	Cab Calloway 12/25/1907 - 11/18/1994 American jazz composer, singer and bandleader
57	Humphrey Bogart 12/25/1899 - 1/14/1957 American actor
55	Robert Ripley 12/25/1890 - 5/27/1949 American newspaper cartoonist; founded "Ripley's Believe It or Not!"
91	Conrad Hilton 12/25/1887 - 1/3/1979 American businessman; founded Hilton Hotels chain
42	Franz Rosenzweig 12/25/1886 - 12/10/1929 German-Jewish philosopher
71	Maurice Utrillo 12/25/1883 - 11/5/1955 French painter
62	Louis Chevrolet 12/25/1878 - 6/6/1941 French-born American automobile designer
90	Clara Barton 12/25/1821 - 4/12/1912 Founder of the American Red Cross

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