Also on this day...
Feast of St. John of Damascus - Patron of Icon Painters
Feast of St. Barbara (aka Great Martyr Barbara) - Patroness of Artillerymen, Architects, Mathematicians, and Miners
Santa's List Day
Wear Brown Shoes Day
National Cookie Day
Rainer Maria Rilke was born in 1875, and Dena Dietrich - "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!" - was born in 1928.