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On this day - 1843; December 9th
Topic Started: 9 Dec 2015, 06:33 AM (190 Views)
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Saturday, December 9, 1843. : The first Christmas cards are created.

The giving and receiving of Christmas cards has become a tradition throughout the world in the last century, with commercially-produced Christmas cards becoming more popular during the twentieth century. The earliest form of Christmas greetings were produced as gifts in Germany; they were called "Andachtsbilder" and were scroll-like greeting cards with devotional pictures, wishing the recipient "Ein gut selig jar", or "A good and blessed year". However, the tradition was not maintained over the ensuing centuries.

Sir Henry Cole, Director of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, found that writing numerous Christmas greetings to friends and colleagues was becoming a time-consuming task. He asked his artist friend, John Calcott Horsley, to design a card which could be used by Cole and also sold to the public. The first Christmas cards were created in England on 9 December 1843. Horsley produced 1,000 lithographed and hand-coloured cards. More like postcards, they sold for a shilling, which was the equivalent of a day's wages for a labourer. It was another twenty years before Christmas cards became commercially viable for the common man, following the invention of cheaper colour lithography.

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Today's birthday celebrities include...

Kirk Douglas actor 99
Joan Armatrading singer songwriter 65
Beau Bridges actor 74
Dame Judi Dench actress 81
Sonia Gandhi president of India 69
Imogen Heap singer 38
Bob Hawke former Oz PM 86
John Makovich actor 62
Joanna Trollope novelist 72


also on this day ...

1960 first episode of Corrie
1990 Lech Walesa elected president of Poland



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