Video: 'The Beatles: Rubber Soul - 1965 (Full Album. 2009 Stereo Remaster)'
(Friday, December 24, 1965, Christmas Eve) — The Beatles earned a gold record today from the Recording Industry Association of America for the album Rubber Soul, just 18 days after it was released.
Video: 'NORAD Tracks Santa 60th Anniversary'
(Saturday, December 24, 1955, Christmas Eve) — The Continental Air Defense Command Operations Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, found itself fielding phone calls from children wanting to know the whereabouts of Santa Claus today after a newspaper ad mistakenly gave the Center’s number.
The result was a tradition continued by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) of tracking Santa’s location the night before Christmas.
(Saturday, December 24, 1955, Christmas Eve) — “I Hear You Knocking” by Gale Storm peaked at #3 on today’s Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart for three weeks.
Video: 'Battleship Potemkin (1925) - Full Movie; English'
(Thursday, December 24, 1925, Christmas Eve) — Battleship Potemkin, a Soviet silent film about the 1905 mutiny by the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin against their officers of the Tsarist regime, opened today in the Soviet Union.
Directed by S.M. Eisenstein, the film starred Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barksy and Grigori Aleksandrov.
Video: 'Ku Klux Klan - A Secret History' (Dec. 24, 1865, at 10:22)
(Sunday, December 24, 1865, Christmas Eve) — Six veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club today in Pulaski, Tennessee, that was the original version of the Ku Klux Klan.
