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The 25th of December is the actual Christmas day in the Anglo-Saxon tradition. But of course there is a suitable alternative. At least according to the US Patent Office librarian Robert L. Birch, who declared this date to be the day without L.
Johannes Kepler (December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer. He is a key figure in the 17th-century scientific revolution, best known for his laws of planetary motion, and his books Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae.
Stan Lee (December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer.
Linus Benedict Torvalds (December 28, 1969) is a Finnish–American software engineer who is the creator and, historically, the principal developer of the Linux kernel, which became the kernel for many Linux distributions as well as other operating systems such as Android and Chrome OS.
The last day of the year also provides another series of occasions that extend the global turn of the year by one or the other content component. This is also the case in the case of the US-American "don't disturb" day, which our transatlantic neighbours always celebrate on 31 December.
Diablo is an action role-playing hack and slash video game developed by Blizzard North and released by Blizzard Entertainment on December 31, 1996. Set in the fictional Kingdom of Khanduras in the mortal realm, Diablo makes the player take control of a lone hero battling to rid the world of Diablo, the Lord of Terror.
I. C. Wiener is a fictional employee of Applied Cryogenics. While he worked at Panucci's Pizza, Fry is called to deliver a pizza to this person, and understands the prank call too late. Instead of making the trip a complete waste, he eats the pizza.
January 1st is celebrated in the USA as a gift of an apple day to complement the traditional New Year celebrations.
While the rest of the world primarily celebrates this date as New Year's Day, the Americans, at least according to the US American Tom Zager, celebrate the day of the letter Z.
Jawed Karim (born 28 October 1979 in Mersebur, Germany) is a German-American Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of YouTube. He was the first person to upload a video to the site. This inaugural video – titled Me at the zoo – has been viewed over 69 million times as of May 2019.