** Little River Canyon National Preserve

** Little Smalltalk

** Little Milton, Oxfordshire

** Tom Little

** Little John

** " The Song of the Little Hunter " ( poem )

** Ann Little, American actress ( b. 1891 )

** American Civil Rights Movement – Little Rock Crisis: Governor Orville Faubus of Arkansas calls out the US National Guard, to prevent African-American students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock.

** Shawn " Clown " Crahan, American rock percussionist ( Slipknot, Dirty Little Rabbits )

** Little Sisters of Jesus founded in Algeria by Little Sister Magdeleine.

** Lowell George, American rock musician ( Little Feat )

** Karen Grassle, American actress ( Little House on the Prairie )

** Floyd Little, American football player

** Lawson Little, American golfer ( b. 1910 )

** Darby O ' Gill and the Little People, a film based on H. T.

** Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches the satellite Sputnik 5, with the dogs Belka and Strelka ( the Russian for " Squirrel " and " Little Arrow "), 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.

** Cleavon Little, American actor ( b. 1939 )

** Little Richard, American singer and evangelist ( Tutti Frutti )

** Walt Disney's classic Silly Symphony cartoon The Three Little Pigs is first released.

** For example: One specific person may be identified by all of the following identifiers: Jane Smith ; Jane Elizabeth Meredith Smith ; Jane E. M. Smith ; Jane E. Smith ; Janie Smith ; Janie ; Little Janie ( as opposed to her mother or sister or cousin, Big Janie ); Aunt Jane ; Auntie Janie ; Mom ; Grandmom ; Nana ; Kelly's mother ; Billy's grandmother ; Ms. Smith ; Dr. Smith ; Jane E. Smith, PhD ; and Fuzzy ( her jocular nickname at work ).

** Dzilmora ( lived in the Alamo Hueco, Little Hatchet and Big Hatchet Mountains in SW New Mexico, southeastern local group )

** Little Fugitive-Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin

** Christmas on Campus ( University of Dayton )

** The Declaration of Christmas Peace ( Old Great Square of Turku, Finland's official Christmas City )

** Earliest day on which Feast of the Holy Family can fall, celebrated on Sunday after Christmas or 30 if Christmas falls on a Sunday.

** Christmas ( Armenian Apostolic Church )

** The deadly Christmas flood of 1964 begins ; It becomes one of the most destructive weather events to affect Oregon in the 20th century.

** Band Aid records the charity single " Do They Know It's Christmas?

** The Eggnog Riot breaks out at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York during the early morning hours, but is squelched by Christmas chapel service.

** After its removal from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day, 1950, the Stone of Scone resurfaces on the altar of Arbroath Abbey.

** A peace delegation that includes singer-activist Joan Baez and human rights attorney Telford Taylor visit Hanoi to deliver Christmas mail to American prisoners of war ( they will be caught in the Christmas bombing of North Vietnam ).

** A flash fire at a Christmas celebration in a one-room schoolhouse in Babbs, Oklahoma kills 36 people, mostly small children.

** Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.

** Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes makes his first appearance, in the novel A Study in Scarlet published in Beeton's Christmas Annual.

** " Father Christmas " is a main character of the Christmas masque written by Ben Jonson and presented at the court of King James I of England.

** Mr. Ives ' Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos

** Christmas darter, Etheostoma hopkinsi.

** Christmas ( People give one another gifts, often supposedly receiving them from Santa Claus, the Christ child or Saint Nicholas.

** The Long Christmas Dinner

** The Long Christmas Dinner

** the birth of Jesus, or Christmas

** Christmas Cracker-National Film Board of Canada, Favorite Films of California-Norman McLaren, Jeff Hale, Gerald Potterton and Grant Munro