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presides at St Patrick's Cathedral mass
plans for Xmas message broadcast and lighting of natl community Xmas tree
Arrested on charge of violence in Green Bus Lines strike
Vetoes 51-billion dollar bill rescinding certain war appropriations and contracts
1945Lemmy, English hard rock singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2015)[†]
Ian Fraser Kilmister, better known as Lemmy Kilmister or simply Lemmy, was an English musician. He was the founder, lead vocalist, bassist and primary songwriter of the metal band Motörhead, of which he was the only continuous member, and a member of Hawkwind from 1971 to 1975.
1945Nicholas Meyer, American screenwriter, film director, and author[†]
Nicholas Meyer is an American screenwriter, director and author known for his best-selling novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and for directing the films Time After Time, two of the Star Trek feature films, the 1983 television film The Day After, and the 1999 HBO original film Vendetta.
1945Josephine Sabel, American singer and comedian (born 1866)[†]
Josephine Domingue Sabel was an American singer and comedian, billed as "The Queen of Song" in vaudeville.
1945Five of nine children become missing after their home in Fayetteville, West Virginia, is burned down.[†]
On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder residence in Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States. At the time, it was occupied by George Sodder, his wife Jennie, and nine of their ten children. During the fire, George, Jennie, and four of the nine children escaped. The bodies of the other five children have never been found. The surviving Sodder family believed for the rest of their lives that the five missing children survived.