Today is Thursday, Dec. 25, the 359th day of 2014. There are six days left in the year. This is

Today is Thursday, Dec. 25, the 359th day of 2014. There are six days left in the year. This is Christmas Day.

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On this date in:

A.D. 336: The first known commemoration of Christmas on Dec. 25 takes place in Rome.

1066: William the Conqueror is crowned king of England.

1776: Gen. George Washington and his troops cross the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, N.J.

1818: “Silent Night (Stille Nacht)” is publicly performed for the first time during the Christmas Midnight Mass at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.

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1989: Jim Cummings, a 1970 graduate of Ursuline High School, tells Vindicator Entertainment Editor Tom Williams that he will be supplying the voices of both Winnie the Pooh and Tigger when production resumes on the fall episodes of “The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh,” an ABC Saturday morning cartoon.

In an interview for Christmas Day, the Rev. Dr. John Luoma, pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church on Midlothian Boulevard, says he likes Christmas, but Easter is more at the heart of the Christian story, and it is a day that is hard to commercialize.

1974: Tests have linked blood found in a 1968 Cadillac off Wilson Avenue in Campbell in October with that of Philip “Fleegle” Mainer, a Youngstown area police character who operated adult movie theaters in New York state.

General Motors Corp., the Youngstown district’s largest employer, adds more than $428 million to the area’s economy in 1974.

Four stained glass panels by French artist Saliba Douaihy are installed at St. Maron Church, 1555 S. Meridian Road, in time for Christmas.

1964: “Glory to God” resounds instead of the traditional “Gloria in Excelsis Deo” in three Catholic churches in the Youngstown Diocese after Bishop Emmet M. Walsh gives permission for the use of English.

There is no skating in Mill Creek Park on Christmas Day because all park employees have been given the day off.

Thomas Malley, Youngs-town native and a graduate of South High School and for many years an editor at Newsweek magazine, dies at his Brooklyn, N.Y., home

1939: Wick C. Gans, prominent Youngstown druggist in the 1880s, dies in Pasadena, Calif., following a heart attack.

In a Christmas sermon in St. Columba Church, the Very Rev. Joseph N. Trainor, pastor of St. Columba and dean of Mahoning County Catholic clergy, condemns war in every form as “a monstrous evil.”