What Should We Remember on 25 December?

TWENTY-FIFTH-DECEMBER is a far-famed date for many rationalities mainly garbled with Christmas celebration.


On this day are deaths and births of the famous and ordinary people-all which leans to be sidelined in the amidst the season of festivities. In this article I have compiled list of anniversaries which fall on the Christmas day.

One of the well-known people who came into this world of sorrows and evils on Christmas day in1942 is a scientist and mathematician-Sir Isaac Newton. This guy is famous for his invention of the reflecting telescope and for formulating the theory of calculus.

This redoubtable genius was also found time to be a Whig Member of parliament and master of the Mint (a post which held for twenty eight years, until his death in 1927). He is also celebrated because of his alchemy study and astrology, and to write about interesting little topics such as the history of creation.

American hotelier Conrad Hilton and the British novelist Rebecca West, the Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat, who was assassinated in 1981 after making history as the only Arab leader to sign a peace treaty with Israel, they also sneaked this world on Christmas day.

Switching to sad news, two film actors, Charlie Chaplin and W.C Fields were called by the creator of universe on 25th December in 1946. The timing of Field’s death was tongue in cheek as he hated Christmas Day and all its accouterments.

In 1980, the world received William Claude Dunkenfield-a great strange, who had several hundred separate bank accounts to hide his money under variety of strange names. He also used unlikely pseudonyms in his capacity as a writer-to name a few, Otis Criblecoblis and Mahatma Kane Jeeves are some of the names he used in his accounts.

Amongst of the people who lost their lives on this day are 17 workers who died from a gas leak at a steel plant in China’s northern Hebei province in 2008. Almost fourty people were working near the blast furnace where the leak occurred at the time of the accident-two died instantly while 15 others died at the hospital.

In 2008 on Christmas Day, people of Ukraine were on grieve followed the death of 19 people due to an explosion that cleaved an apartment house in the city of YEVPATORIA. Apparently, the blast caused by canisters of oxygen in the underground room which flattened all five floors, and some furnisher were smashed including children’s teddy bears and shoes.

Delight increased in the heart of Mr. Rosen in 1920 as he doubled his Christmas celebration with the birth of his son, Joe Rosen who was born on Christmas Day. Joe Rosen is well known as an a comic book artist. In his career with Marvel and DC Comics, he has written titles such as Daredevil, Spider-Man, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, The Incredible Hulk, and X-Factor. In the midst of all of this work, he wrote also three issues of Marvel’s Star Trek run in 1981.

Dick Miller, an old hand character actor from the Bronx, New York, who has appeared in two Star Trek spin-off series, was also born on Christmas Day in 1928. He began as a regular in Roger Corman films and, later, in films directed by Joe Dante.

He made his film debut in Corman’s Apache Woman in 1955, and would go on to work with Corman in such cult B-movie classics as It Conquered the World (1956), The Gunslinger (1956, with William Schallert), Not of This Earth (1957), A Bucket of Blood (1959), The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), Atlas (1961, starring Michael Forest), to name a few.

Twenty-fifth December 1066, is also a coronation day of the English king William who was installed in Westminster Abbey, after the death of King Harold II in the Battle of Hastings.

He is the one apparently turned so called Saxon-Scandinavian country into one with a French-speaking nobility. In order to mark his superiority over his unfortunate predecessor he had a new crown made from Byzantine gold, encrusted with jewels. The congregation cheered at the climax of the ceremony with his Norman guards upsetting the noise springing from Abbey.

So, when celebrating Christmas we have to consider that there are so many festivities on this day which tends to be isolated.

Malawi Qualify For Angola 2010 Africa Cup Of Nations

Malawi qualified dramatically for Angola 2010 Cup of Nations with just four points in Group E.

Malawi lost 1-0 to Burkina Faso on Saturday but they reached the promised land after Ivory Coast dismantled Guinea by three goals to nil.

Guinea are in a bottom with three points while Malawi are on fourth poistion with a record of one win and a draw. Malawi has something to smile about after painful 25 years of not qualifying for the cup.

Malawi did not perform well the thing that made the hosts to score a silly goal just a minute into the second half.. The Flames coach, Kinna Phiri made unimpressive selection when he featured two defending midfielders (Jacob Ngwira and Hellings Mwakasungula) the thing that made them to do nothing than chasing shadows.

But things changed when Jacob Ngwira was substituted by Devie Banda who tried to supply the ball to the starving strikers. After that, Malawi showed hunger of goint forward with their free-flowing passes  which although yielded nothing.

Ivory cost already qualified after Malawi earned them a single point at Kamuzu Stadium in September.

Right now people are celebrating regardless of their loss to Burkinabes.