That's all. Just have a great day. Lots of love to everyone. :)
...OK that's not all. Also on this day in history:
• 274 AD - Emperor Aurelian (the best emperor ever, don't @ me) dedicates a temple to the sun god Sol Invictus
• 337 AD - First known day that Christmas could have been celebrated
• 352 AD - First known day that Christmas is celebrated
• 496 AD - King Clovis I of the Franks is Baptised as a Roman Catholic, the first German King to do so
• 597 AD - England adopts the Julian calendar
• 800 AD - Charlemagne crowned as the first Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III in Rome
• 1066 - William the Conqueror is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey, finishing the conquest of England
• 1100 - Boudouin I of Boulogne is crowned King of Jerusalem
• 1223 - Saint Francis of Assisi assembles the first Nativity scene in Greccio, Italy
• 1492 - The Santa Maria, Christopher Columbus's flagship, runs aground and sinks off the coast of Hispaniola, leaving the crew to found the colony there
• 1642 - Birth of Sir Isaac Newton, in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England
• 1643 - Captain William Mynors finds and names Christmas Island
• 1741 - The astronomer Anders Celcius introduces the Centigrade temperature scale
• 1776 - George Washington crosses the Delaware River
• 1818 - "Silent Night, Holy Night" - first Christmas Carol, performed in Austria
• 1831 - Louisiana and Arkansas - first US states to recognise Christmas as a holiday
• 1868 - US President Andrew Johnson pardons his Southern opponents from the Civil War
• 1914 - The Christmas Truce: British and German troops join together to exchange gifts and play football
• 1926 - Hirohito assumes the throne of Japan
• 1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as the President of the USSR on live TV
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