On this day... - Share a fun fact about today

[Romeo]

To keep each day special, share a fun fact about today. It can be an important birth, historical event, day is part of a mathematical pattern, etc.

I'll start.

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On Christmas, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as leader of the Soviet Union in 1991 (no longer known as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union but instead the President of the Soviet Union; the Communist Party was banned following a failed hardliner coup against Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin back in August).

Hours after Gorbachev's resignation, the red-and-gold hammer-and-sickle flag of the Soviet Union was pulled down over the Moscow Kremlin and is replaced with the white-blue-red tricolor flag of the Russian Empire, now the flag of the Russian Federation.

 

[glue eater]

In 1989 Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu was sentenced to death by a revolutionary court and immediately executed with his wife. Roast in hell.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

OG American Chad George Washington crossed a frozen river to force freedom past the horrendous maws and down the willfully-enslaved gullets of a bunch of dumb Brit-niggers. Merry Christmas, you filthy animals.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Pope Leo III crowning and christening Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Lombards as the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas day 800 AD.

Rome for all intents and purposes was back.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

pornstar Joanna Angel was born on christmas day 1980, some say the trauma of getting birthday presents on christmas is why she's spent the majority of her life in porn being a dirty little cumslut.

 

[Mortan Shekelstorm]

Jesus Christ was born

 

[break these cuffs]

pornstar Joanna Angel was born on christmas day 1980, some say the trauma of getting birthday presents on christmas is why she's spent the majority of her life in porn being a dirty little cumslut.

She's jewish.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

She's jewish.

So? That doesn't change her birthday or how super cute she is.

 

[Romeo]

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On the day after Christmas of 1991, the upper chamber of the Supreme Soviet, the Soviet of the Republics, voted to formally dissolve the Soviet Union (USSR). The dissolution gave independence to the fifteen countries' republics with the Russian Federation becoming the sole legal successor to the Union.

With the fall of the USSR, the United States of America becomes the world's sole superpower, beginning a new era of the dominance of "liberal democracy."

 

[Romeo]

In 537 AD, Byzantine Emperor Justinian inaugurates the opening of the Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople.​

 

[Romeo]

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Edward the Confessor (Bayeux Tapestry)​	Westminster Abbey (Bayeux Tapestry)​

In 1065, King Edward "the Confessor" consecrates Westminster Abbey in London, England, following the church's completion back in 1060.​

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

The 1958 NFL Championship regarded as "The Greatest Game Ever Played" was the first NFL playoff with a sudden death overtime when the Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants 23-17.

 

[Fat Gollum]

Today I pooped myself.

 

[Romeo]

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In 1845, the United States annexes Texas and admits it to the Union as its 28th state.​

 

[glue eater]

100 years ago Italy Prime Minister Benito Mussolini dissolved parliament and proclaimed himself dictator of Italy under the title ‘Duce’.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

An earthquake struck Haiti killing 300,000 people and destroying more of it's infrastructure 15 years ago in 2010.