Today is Sunday, Dec. 25, the 360th day of 2016. There are six days left in the year. This is Christmas Day.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Dick Miller is 88. Author Anne Roiphe is 81. Actress Hanna Schygulla is 73. Rhythm-and-blues singer John Edwards (the Spinners) is 72. Singer Jimmy Buffett is 70. Pro and College Football Hall-of-Famer Larry Csonka is 70. Country singer Barbara Mandrell is 68. Actress Sissy Spacek is 67. Former White House adviser Karl Rove is 66. Singer Annie Lennox is 62. Reggae singer-musician Robin Campbell (UB40) is 62. Baseball Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson is 58. The former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer, is 58. Rock singer Mac Powell (Third Day) is 44. Rhythm-and-blues singer Ryan Shaw is 36.

In A.D. 336, the first known commemoration of Christmas on Dec. 25 took place in Rome.

In 1066, William the Conqueror was crowned King of England.

In 1776, General George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, N.J.

In 1818, ‘‘Silent Night (Stille Nacht)’’ was publicly performed for the first time during the Christmas Midnight Mass at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.

In 1926, Hirohito became emperor of Japan, succeeding his father, Emperor Yoshihito.

In 1931, New York’s Metropolitan Opera broadcast an entire live opera over radio for the first time: ‘‘Hansel and Gretel’’ by Engelbert Humperdinck.

In 1961, Pope John XXIII formally announced the upcoming convocation of the Second Vatican Council, which opened in Oct. 1962.

In 1977, comedian Sir Charles Chaplin died in Switzerland at age 88.

In 1989, ousted Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were executed following a popular uprising.

In 1990, the World Wide Web was born in Geneva as computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau created the world’s first hyperlinked webpage.

In 1991, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a communist superpower that had already gone out of existence.

In 2011, a suicide bombing of a Catholic church near Nigeria’s capital left at least 44 people dead.

In 2015, Pope Francis, in his Christmas Day greeting from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, encouraged UN-backed peace deals for Syria and Libya and praised those who welcomed migrants.