1166: King John of England is born. He is best known as being the enemy of Robin Hood, but he also is the king who signed the Magna Carta.1491: Ignatius of Loyola is born. He founded the Jesuits.
1515: Thomas Wolsey is named the English Lord Chancellor. He fell from grace when he was unable to get the Pope to agree to Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon.
1809: Kit Carson is born.
1814: The Treaty of Ghent is signed, ending the War of 1812.1818: Silent Night is composed by Franz Gruber and Josef Mohr.
1865: The Ku Klux Klan is formed.
1880: Johnny Gruelle, creator of Reggedy Ann is born.
1914: The World War I Christmas Truce begins.1922: Ava Gardner is born
1943: Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander.1953: Dragnet becomes the first network-sponsored television program.
1966: Diedrich Bader is born. He played one of the slacker friends of The Drew Carey Show.
1968: The crew of the Apollo 8 become the first humans to orbit the moon.
1979: The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan.
1984: Peter Lawford dies. He played the drug kingpin in the MST3K episode Angels Revenge.
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1992: Peyo, the creator of the Smurfs dies.
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