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Boniface V was elected pope.
1620
French Huguenots declared war on King Louis XIII.
1805
Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (Mormon Church), is born in Sharon, Vermont.
1823
The Troy Sentinel, a newspaper in New York, first publishes Clement Clarke's poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas." More commonly known today as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," this poem has become the basis for most American traditions about Christmas and Santa Claus.
1834
Economist Thomas Robert Malthus died in Haileybury, Hertfordshire.
1841
Akbar Khan, son of the dethroned Dost Mohammed Khan and leader of the Afghan rebels fighting British occupation, invites Sir William Macnaughten to meet and discuss a peaceful settlement but Macnaughten and those with him are killed.
1949
In his Christmas address, Pope Pius XII calls upon all Orthodox Christians, Protestants, and Jews to unite under "the one true church" (meaning the Roman Catholic Church) in order to defeat militant atheism. Pius XII never called upon Christians, or even just Catholics, to defeat the brutal Nazi regime or even to combat fascism generally.
1950
Pope Pius XII stated that a tomb found under St. Peter's Basilica in Rome was, in fact, St. Peter's tomb.
1958
In his first Christmas message, Pope John XXIII urges all Christians around the world to unite against the communist threat of atheism and materialism.
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