Seiko introduced the first quartz watch on Christmas Day, 1969, and everyone, the Swiss included, rushed to adopt a technology that was at once more reliable, more accurate and much cheaper to produce.
Mr. HANK CLEMITIS: (Singing) On the first day of Christmas, Katrina gave to me my boat sitting in an oak tree.
Much of the Tube network was disrupted on the first day of the post-Christmas sales.
It is the third successive walkout by Tube drivers on what is the first day of the post-Christmas sales.
If the deal is ratified, training camp and free agent signings could commence as soon as Dec. 9 with the first games of the shortened 66-game season scheduled for Christmas Day.
He also said Easyjet might, for the first time, operate flights on Christmas Day to help catch up.
No, really: The first act begins and ends in a Manhattan apartment on Christmas Day in 1980, and the second opens in the same place on Christmas Day in 2000.
Britain's senior Anglican bishops will be tweeting their Christmas Day sermons for the first time this year.
Colombia's left-wing Farc rebels have announced a unilateral Christmas ceasefire, on the first day of peace talks in Cuba.
On Monday, the first day back to work for many after the Christmas break, the main parties stepped up the pre-election campaign with a row about tax and spending.
As expected, shoppers came out in full force on the day after Christmas because it fell on a Monday for the first time in six years, ShopperTrak said.
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