Portal:Christmas/Did you know/9

... that "Ma" Newell (pictured), one of the few four-year All-Americans in college football history, was run over by a railroad engine on Christmas Eve 1897?
...that the world's first all-electronic television receiver was demonstrated on Christmas Day 1927 by the Japanese researcher Kenjiro Takayanagi?
...that the 2004 Christmas Eve Snowstorm was the most significant snow event for southern Texas since 1895 with a maximum of 1.5 inches of accumulated snow?

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