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   Today in History | OnThisDay.com to All   
   Today in History for 25th December 2018   
   25 Dec 18 03:54:58   
   
   From: today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@alt119.net.remove-ywh-this   
      
   Historical Events   
      
   1599 - The city of Natal, Brazil, is founded.   
      
   1621 - Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony (now in Massachusetts)    
   forbids game playing on Christmas   
      
   1905 - V Herbert/H Blossoms musical "Mlle Modiste" premieres in NYC   
      
   1946 - Constitution accepted in Taiwan   
      
   1954 - WSFA TV channel 12 in Montgomery, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting   
      
   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.   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1698 - Jacobus Houbraken, Dutch engraver/illustrator   
      
   1815 - Temistocle Solera, composer   
      
   1915 - Pete Rugolo, bandleader/arranger (Fugitive)   
      
   1946 - Gene Lamont, American baseball player and manager   
      
   1964 - Anil Kaul, Amritsar India, Canadian badminton player (Olympics 1996)   
      
   1971 - Terry Vaughn, CFL receiver (Calgary Stampeders), born in Sumter, South   
   Carolina   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   820 - Leo V, the Armenian, Byzantine gen/Emperor (813-20), murdered   
      
   1758 - James Hervey, English clergyman (b. 1714)   
      
   1765 - Antonio Tonelli, composer, dies at 79   
      
   1784 - Yosa Buson, Japanese painter (b. 1716)   
      
   1848 - Johan Erik Nordblom, Swedish composer, dies at 60   
      
   1951 - Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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