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OddlyTrue News Stand — December 24

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Classic headline

Include Your Children When Baking Cookies

Source: Classic headline (CJR 'Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim' collections)View clipping source

Headline 9 of 27 in the Hall of Fame rotation.

Weird history on December 24

2018 First ever
A helicopter crash kills Martha Érika Alonso, first female Governor of Puebla, Mexico, and her husband Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, former governor.
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1818 First ever
The Christmas carol "Silent Night" (audio featured) by Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber was first performed in a church in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria.
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1818 First ever
The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the Nikolauskirche in Oberndorf, Austria.
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Vintage clipping

Vintage clipping · 1905

The Pacific commercial advertiser (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands), December 24, 1905, (Sunday Advertiser)

Page 5 · mentions "hoax" · printed on this very day

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Image and text from the Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers site.

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