CHRISTMAS BIRTHDAYS.
• You would probably think it very unfortunate to be born on" Christmas 'Day, be- • cause there would, likely as not, be only one party and one set of presents for jbdtti occasions. Yet some very famous*.’people ’haVd-’-' A. been, born on this day.. Sir Isaac Newton,J who discovered the law of gravitation through . noticing an apple fall from a tre,e,. claimed'. • Christmas Day as his’ birthday;. He was born in 1642. Only seven years previously another celebrated man passed away on this date. He was a French navigator, named Samuel do Champlain. • He made voyages .to the then wonderful new world .in the west' (America). He accomplished a lot of wonderful work - for liis country.'-But'he is most'celebrated tor a voyage he made up the river 'St.' Lawrepc® in Canada, in order to found a colony. That tiny colony is now the great city of Quebec.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1929, Page 7 (Supplement)
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