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OddlyTrue News Stand — December 25

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Iraqi Head Seeks Arms

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Weird history on December 25

1758 First ever
Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.
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1809 First ever
American physician Ephraim McDowell performed the world's first removal of an ovarian tumor.
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1758 Oddly true
Based on predictions by Edmond Halley in 1705, Johann Georg Palitzsch observed a comet that was later named Halley's Comet .
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Vintage clipping

Vintage clipping · 1905

The daily morning journal and courier (New Haven, Conn.), December 25, 1905

Page 8 · mentions "sea serpent" · 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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