9 Things That Happened on Christmas Day - a podcast by iVoox

You might think that nothing of historical importance ever happens on Christmas Day, but you'd be wrong.

Here are 9 weird and wonderful events.

The one thing they have in common? They all happened on December 25th.


Jesus of Nazareth - born on December 25th?

Event #1 - Crowing of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor

Event #2 - Coronation of William the Conqueror as King of England

Event #3 - Discovery of Celcius as a measure of temperature

Event #4 - Andrew Johnson pardoning Confederate soldiers

Event #5 - The ceasefire of World War I

Event #6 - The Apollo 8 space shuttle leaves Earth's orbit

Event #7 - The execution of Ceaușescu 

Event #8 - The first live testing of the World Wide Web

Event #9 - The resignation of Mikhael Gorbachev


Full transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/9-things-happened-christmas-day

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