The first
Christmas tree decorated with electrical lights on it was put up by Edward Johnson, President of the Edison Electric Company, on
December 22, 1882. At the time, many people mistrusted electricity and thought that dangerous vapors would seep into their homes through the lights and wires.
The use of
turkey to mean a bad film or play comes from a 19th century American habit of serving bad turkeys between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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The song "
White Christmas" ended the Vietnam War in 1975 – it was used as the radio code signal for the evacuation of Vietnamese people who had assisted the US from Saigon.
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