Merry Christmas!
	Dorothy Wordsworth, sister of Romantic poet William Wordsworth and a diarist and poet in her own right, was born on this day in 1771
	Sydney, Lady Morgan (The Wild Irish Girl) was born on this day in 1781
	Robert Ripley, creator of Ripley's Believe It or Not, was born on Christmas day in 1890, believe it or not!
	Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol was read on the radio for the first time on this day in 1939