1818 The Christmas carol 'Silent Night' - composed by Franz Xaver Gruber - is first sung at the St Nicholas Parish Church in Oberndorf, Austria
1991 A female coelacanth, containing twenty-six near-term embryos, is caught off Pebane, Mozambique
1893 Henry Ford completes his first useful petrol-fueled engine
1926 Richard John Maponya – race-horse breeder, businessperson, first president of NAFCOC, founder of African Bank, and trustee of the Urban Foundation – is born in Pietersburg (Polokwane), Limpopo)
