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It Happened on Christmas Day    2012/03/09 18:21
It Happened on Christmas Day FPG / Hulton / Getty Christmas Truce On Christmas Day in 1914, German and British troops held a temporary ceasefire known as the 'Christmas Truce'. Both sides sang carols, exchanged Christmas greetings and gifts, and there are even stories of soccer matches taking place. In the above photo, German troops decorate a tree in their trench. Mansell / Time Life Pictures King for a (Christmas) Day The French conqueror of Britain, William the Conqueror, was crowned King of England on Christmas Day having famously defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Mansell / Time Life Pictures River Crossing It was on December 25, 1776, that General George Washington and his army made their historic crossing of the Delaware River to attack the British 'Hessian mercenaries' in Trenton, New Jersey. Library of Congress / Getty Presidential Pardon In 1868, President Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional amnesty to all those who fought on the side of the south, like these Confederate soldiers, in the US Civil War. Mansell / Time Life Coronation Robes On December 25, 1926, Hirohito became Emperor of Japan. His 63 year reign was the longest in Japan's history and he presided over a period of tremendous change in Japanese society. National Geographic / Getty To Boldly Watch NASA's Apollo 8 broadcast live from space in 1968 during their journey around the moon. The transmission was the most watched television program ever up to that time Getty Great Briton British actor, director and producer, Charlie Chaplin, died at his home in Switzerland in 1977, at age 88, having established himself as one of the pioneers of movie making.. Rompres / AFP / Getty Death to a Dictator Former Communist Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu, above, and his wife Elena were executed on December 25, 1989, in Bucharest. Their deaths ended 24 years of dictatorial rule and marked the end of Communist control of the country. Vitaly Armand / AFP / Getty Time To Go Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev checks his watch before a televised address announcing his resignation in Moscow, 25 December 1991. The Soviet Union was formally dissolved the following day and, on 27 December, Boris Yeltsin moved into Gorbachev's old office. Hulton / Getty Full Circle In 1990 the first successful trial run of the system which eventually became the World Wide Web was conducted. It would change our lives forever, even resulting in your viewing of this photo essay.