• The first commercial Christmas cards were commissioned in London, in 1843, سے طرف کی Sir Henry Cole, with illustration سے طرف کی John Callcott Horsley. President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the first official White House card in 1953.
• "Rudolph" was actually created سے طرف کی Robert May for Montgomery Ward in the late 1930's as a holiday promotion. The song was written later سے طرف کی Johnny Marks, and recorded سے طرف کی Gene Autry in 1949; it promptly sold about 2 million copies.
• Christmas became an official national holiday in the USA on June 28, 1870.
• Poinsettias are the most مقبول Christmas plant and are the number one "flowering" potted plant in the United States.
• Franklin Pierce put the first Christmas درخت in the White House (in 1856), for a group of Washington Sunday School children. Benjamin Harrison is credited with starting the tradition of the White House tree, being the first to have a decorated family Christmas درخت in the White House in 1889, and Calvin Coolidge put the first National Christmas درخت on the White House lawn (not in the White House) in 1923.
• The first reported electrically lit Christmas درخت was in December, 1882. The world's first practical light bulb was invented سے طرف کی Thomas Edison in 1879, and a mere three years later, in 1882, an officer of Edison's electric company, one Edward Johnson, electrically lit a Christmas درخت for the first time. In 1917, after a tragic آگ کے, آگ in New York City that was caused سے طرف کی Christmas candles, Albert Sadacca (fifteen years old at the time) invented safety lights for Christmas trees. Decorating a live Christmas درخت outdoors became popular, and eventually moved to indoor trees. The outdoor lights also moved onto houses, and decorating houses in lights became (and has remained) popular.
• Christmas trees are grown in all 50 states, including Hawaii and Alaska.
• In 1979, the National Christmas درخت was not lighted except for the سب, سب سے اوپر ornament. This was done because of the American hostages in Iran.
• According to the گینیز, گینز World Records, the world's tallest cut Christmas درخت was a 221' Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) erected and decorated at Northgate Shopping Center, Seattle, Washington, USA, in December 1950.
• سے طرف کی the way, NORAD tracks Santa around the world every Christmas. If you'd like to find out how they do it, and how آپ can follow along, check out NORAD's website here. link
• "Rudolph" was actually created سے طرف کی Robert May for Montgomery Ward in the late 1930's as a holiday promotion. The song was written later سے طرف کی Johnny Marks, and recorded سے طرف کی Gene Autry in 1949; it promptly sold about 2 million copies.
• Christmas became an official national holiday in the USA on June 28, 1870.
• Poinsettias are the most مقبول Christmas plant and are the number one "flowering" potted plant in the United States.
• Franklin Pierce put the first Christmas درخت in the White House (in 1856), for a group of Washington Sunday School children. Benjamin Harrison is credited with starting the tradition of the White House tree, being the first to have a decorated family Christmas درخت in the White House in 1889, and Calvin Coolidge put the first National Christmas درخت on the White House lawn (not in the White House) in 1923.
• The first reported electrically lit Christmas درخت was in December, 1882. The world's first practical light bulb was invented سے طرف کی Thomas Edison in 1879, and a mere three years later, in 1882, an officer of Edison's electric company, one Edward Johnson, electrically lit a Christmas درخت for the first time. In 1917, after a tragic آگ کے, آگ in New York City that was caused سے طرف کی Christmas candles, Albert Sadacca (fifteen years old at the time) invented safety lights for Christmas trees. Decorating a live Christmas درخت outdoors became popular, and eventually moved to indoor trees. The outdoor lights also moved onto houses, and decorating houses in lights became (and has remained) popular.
• Christmas trees are grown in all 50 states, including Hawaii and Alaska.
• In 1979, the National Christmas درخت was not lighted except for the سب, سب سے اوپر ornament. This was done because of the American hostages in Iran.
• According to the گینیز, گینز World Records, the world's tallest cut Christmas درخت was a 221' Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) erected and decorated at Northgate Shopping Center, Seattle, Washington, USA, in December 1950.
• سے طرف کی the way, NORAD tracks Santa around the world every Christmas. If you'd like to find out how they do it, and how آپ can follow along, check out NORAD's website here. link
