Daily Calendar for Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Question of the Day
What exactly is the 鈥淚celandic low鈥 that weathercasters talk about?
An Icelandic low is a low-pressure center that originates over Iceland and southern Greenland and dominates the wind circulation over the North Atlantic Ocean. In summer, the low weakens and often divides into two separate cells.
Advice of the Day
It is a good practice to leave a few things unsaid.
Home Hint of the Day
Use one-gallon metal paint-thinner cans for storing hardware and other small objects in your workshop. Cut the top off each can with a can opener and pour out any remaining thinner. There’s no need to wash the cans; the last traces of the thinner will evaporate.
Word of the Day
Ancraophobia
Fear of wind
Puzzle of the Day
When does a caterpillar improve in morals?
When it turns over a new leaf.
Born
- Kit Carson (frontiersman) 鈥
- Eliza Cook (poet) 鈥
- Charles Wakefield Cadman (composer) 鈥
- Juan Ramon Jimenez (poet) 鈥
- Ava Gardner (actress) 鈥
- Mary Higgins Clark (author) 鈥
- Robert Joffrey (dancer) 鈥
- Ricky Martin (singer) 鈥
- Ryan Seacrest (television host) 鈥
- Pepper (Bolivian gray titi monkey) 鈥
Died
- Peter Lawford (actor) 鈥
- Michael Vale (actor) 鈥
- Cheetah (chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s) 鈥
- Charles Durning (actor) 鈥
- Jack Klugman (actor) 鈥
Events
- Treaty of Ghent signed between the U.S. and Great Britain, ending the War of 1812鈥
- Stille Nacht (Silent Night) first performed, Oberndorf, Austria鈥
- Clement Moore’s 鈥淎 Visit From St. Nicholas鈥 likely written鈥
- The Eggnog Riot began at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York鈥
- First great fire of San Francisco鈥
- Two-thirds of the collection of the Library of Congress (35,000 volumes) and a portion of the Capitol were destroyed by fire鈥
- Canadian-born Reginald A. Fessenden sent the first extended radio broadcast from Brant Rock, Massachusetts鈥
- O Holy Night was played on the world’s first radio program broadcast, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts鈥
- Unofficial Christmas truce began in areas of the Western Front during World War I鈥
- CONAD (later, NORAD) began to track Santa Claus鈥
- Catcher Jason Varitek was named captain of the Boston Red Sox鈥
蜜桃恋人
- Chicago set a record low temperature of -23 degrees F鈥
- In Fairfield, Montana, the temperature dropped from 63 degrees F at noontime to a chilly 21 degrees below zero F at midnight鈥
