Discover the significant world events, notable birthdays, and notable deaths that occurred on December 25. Check what happened today in history here.

A year after their film debut, “The Cocoanuts,” entered the public domain, the Marx Brothers’ beloved “Animal Crackers” joins ...

Picture this: You’re a program manager at Microsoft in 2012. Your inbox is flooded with hundreds of feature requests from engineers across the company. Most are complex, resource-intensive ideas that ...

Notable people born on this day include “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer and “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” host Ryan Seacrest.

The list includes a brewery, a cocktail lounge, a sports grill and restaurants serving tacos, bagels, New England seafood and ...

In 1952, Jack O'Neill opened the first-ever "surf shop" in Santa Cruz, a novel idea that soon spread throughout California ...

In 2012, Ray Collins, who invited guitarist Frank Zappa to join the band that eventually became the "Mothers of Invention," died five days after a heart attack. He was 75. Collins sang on three albums ...

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was conceived for a purely Scrooge-like reason — to make money. Thankfully, its creator saw the Montgomery Ward marketing campaign as an opportunity to be as bold in his ...

President Lee Jae-myung, who is on a state visit to China, visited the Memorial Hall of the Provisional Government of the ...

The original Betty Boop, the first four Nancy Drew books and Greta Garbo's first talkie are among the many works from 1930 that will be free to use, share and remake starting on Jan. 1.

Jeb Bing, the founding editor and publisher of the Pleasanton Weekly whose perennial presence in the community earned him the moniker "Mr. Pleasanton", died during the holiday season at 90 years old.