Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
The Christmas tree towers over the ice skating rink at Rockefeller Center in New York City on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 1979. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)
Pope Paul VI
Pope Paul VI celebrates a midnight Christmas mass for miners working at a railway construction site in Ponzano, Dec. 25, 1972. (Ap Photo)
Great Britain London Family Watching Queen Elizabeth's Christmas Speech
Mrs. Sidney Smart and her daughters, Sandra, 4, and Barbara, 15, look-in as Queen Elizabeth II makes her Christmas broadcast on television on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 1957. Her Majesty spoke from the long library at Sandringham, and was seen by both B.B.C. and I.T.V. viewers. It was the first time that the occasion has been televised. The Smart family live at Walthamstow, London, United Kingdom. (AP Photo/Sidney Smart)
White House Christmas Trees
What with the lighted Christmas trees in front of its portals in Washington on Dec. 25, 1931, the White House presented a beautiful, softly illuminated spectacles on Christmas night, and one at once sensed the serenity and joyous festivity of the day that prevailed behind the closed doors, where the grandchildren of President and Mrs. Hoover, Peggy Ann and Herbert, made merry with their toys and gifts. (AP Photo)
Aloha Bowl 1987
UCLA's Troy Aikman is sacked by University of Florida's Clifford Charlton (56) in the second quarter of Aloha Bowl on Dec. 25, 1987 in Honolulu. (AP Photo)
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BRITAIN KING CHRISTMAS SERVICE
Britain's King George VI and his family attended Christmas morning service in the Sandringham Estate Church, Norfolk, Dec. 25, 1936. From left to right; King George VI; Princess Elizabeth; Princess Margaret Rose and Queen Elizabeth. Other members of the royal party are not identified. (AP Photo/Staff/Len Puttnam)