December 25

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	800	Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.	Family	Coronation	Bandstand
2.	1066	William the Conqueror is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.	Splendor Bin	Coronation Day	Stealth
3.	1100	Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in theChurch of the Nativity.	Gentle Giant	Pantagruel's Nativity	Acquiring the Taste
4.	1818	The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.	Frank Sinatra	Silent Night	A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra
5.	1868	U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.	The Get Up Kids	Forgive and Forget	Red Letter Day
6.	1946	The first in Europe artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was initiated within Soviet nuclear reactor F-1.	Aisler Set	Attraction Action Reaction	How I Learned to Write Backwards
7.	1950	The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.	D'swooners	Stone Free	Japanese Garage Bands of the 60's
8.	1974	Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.	Peter Gabriel	Intruder	Melt
9.	1990	The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.	Marillion	The Web	Script for a Jester's Tear
10.	N/A	Christmas Day, Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. (International)	The Beach Boys	Christmas Day	Christmas with the Beach Boys

(Historical facts about December 25 are from Wikipedia.)