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Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...

Timeline of Events

1870

6.26.1870

The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.

1942

5.29.1942

Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas single in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles.

1970

10.12.1970

Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas

1972

12.18.1972

Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.