Events
- December 24 - Popular Dutch writer and broadcaster Godfried Bomans is buried in the Sint-Adelbertskerkhof (Saint Adelbert Cemetery) in Bloemendaal, two days after his death from a heart attack.
- The Destiny Waltz by Gerda Charles wins the UK's first Whitbread Novel of the Year Award.
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“When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“All strange and terrible events are welcome,
But comforts we despise.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)