Notable Birthdays for December 25
L. L. Langstroth (1810-1895) - Considered the Father of American Beekeeping.
Clara Barton (1821-1912) - Founder of the American Red Cross.
Preston Smith (1823-1863) - Brigadier General for the Confederate Army.
Pud Galvin (1856-1902) - Baseball HOF who was the first 300-game winner in the league history.
Louis Chevrolet (1878-1941) - Co-founder of Chevrolet.
Samuel Berger (1884-1925) - First American box to win the Olympic Heavyweight title, winning a gold metal (1904).
Conrad Hilton (1887-1979) - Founder of the Hilton Hotel chain.
Lila Bell Wallace (1889-1984) - Co-founder of Reader's Digest.
Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) - Considered on the greatest actors in classic Hollywood.
Glenn McCarthy (1907-1988) - Founded of the Shamrock Hotel (TX).
Rod Serling (1924-1975) - Producer who created The Twilight Zone.
Jeanne Hopkins Lucas (1935-2007) - The first Black woman to be elected to the NC Senate.
Jimmy Buffett (1946-2023) - Singer best-known for his songs Margaritaville and Come Monday.
Sissy Spacek (1949-Still Living) - Lead actress in Coal Miner's Daughter and Carrie.
Cheryl Chase (1958-Still Living) - Voice over actress who was the voice of Angelica Pickles in the Rugrats.
Michael P. Anderson (1959-2003) - Astronaut who perished on the Space Shuttle Columbia.
Memorable Events for December 25
1760 - Slave Jupiter Hammon composes the poem An Evening Thought and becomes the first published Black poet.
1809 - The first abdominal surgery to remove a 22 pound ovarian tumor is performed in the U.S.
1831 - Louisiana and Arkansas are the first states to observe Christmas as holiday.
1868 - President Johnson grants an unconditional pardon to all Confederate veterans.
1983 - The first Christmas Parade is televised at Disney World.
1896 - John Philip Sousa writes Stars & Stripes Forever.