december 24

Still image from V for Vendetta.
1. Go to wikipedia and type in your birthday, month and day only.

2. List events that occurred on that day that interest you.
1814 - The Treaty of Ghent was signed which ended the War of 1812.
1865 - Several US Civil War Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan.
1906 - Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmitted the first radio broadcast. The first program, consisted of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
2003 - The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.
2004 - The 2004 Christmas Eve Snowstorm delivers an extremely unusual snowfall to the southern United States.

3. List a few birthdays.
1905 - Howard Hughes, American film producer and inventor (d. 1976)
1923 - George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004)
1971 - Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer
1974 - Ryan Seacrest, American television host

4. List a few deaths.
427 - Archbishop Sisinnius I of Constantinople
820 - Leo V, Byzantine Emperor (assassinated) (b. 775)
1992 - Peyo, Belgian comics artist, and creator of The Smurfs (b. 1928)

5. List a holiday or observance (if any).
- It is the day when food is traditionally set out for Santa Claus and his reindeer. Children around the world are urged to go to bed early so they are not awake when he arrives. (Thank you, Wikipedia!)
- The Declaration of Christmas Peace takes place in the Old Great Square of Turku, Finland's official Christmas City, according to old traditions dating back to the Middle Ages.