On X-Mas Day in...

I decided to go with the X-Mas theme today. I know its a couple days early but yall can live with it.

On X-Mas Day in...
800 – Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
1776 – George Washington and his army cross the Delaware River to attack the Kingdom of Great Britain's Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey.
1818 – The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.
1868 – U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
1974 – Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.
1990 – The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.
1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.

Births
1899 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)
1946 – Jimmy Buffett, American singer and songwriter
1946 – Larry Csonka, American football player
1948 – Barbara Mandrell, American singer and actress
1949 – Sissy Spacek, American actress
1950 – Karl Rove, former American presidential advisor
1954 – Steve Wariner, American country music singer

Some pretty good Christmas b-days with two classic country singers, the King of Margaritaville, a tough running back, the most evil man in the world and Carrie. I'm not going to give you any clips of these people but I will give you the 'Sunny' cast caroling.