📜 This Day in History
December 24
759The Tang-dynasty poet Du Fu departed for Chengdu, where he lived for the next five years and composed poems about life in his thatched cottage.- 1865Six Confederate veterans of the American Civil War founded a social club they named the Ku Klux Klan, which later became a white supremacist group.
- 1914World War I: British and German soldiers interrupted fighting to celebrate Christmas, beginning the Christmas truce.
- 1955According to legend, the NORAD Tracks Santa program began after children began calling the Continental Air Defense Command Center to inquire about Santa Claus's whereabouts due to a misprinted phone number in an advertisement.
- 1973The U.S. Congress granted home rule to Washington, D.C., allowing the residents to elect their own mayor and a city council.
- 2021Burmese military forces killed at least 40 civilians during the Mo So massacre in Kayah State, Myanmar.
