December 22, 2025
The first known performance of “Jingle Bells” (originally called “One Horse Open Sleigh”) happened in September 1857. The song didn’t become associated with Christmas until decades later.
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Why Is Christmas in December?
Christmas, the holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, is celebrated by a majority of Christians on December 25 in the Gregorian calendar. But early Christians did not celebrate his birth, and no one knows on which date Jesus was actually born (some scholars believe that the actual date
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