In 1987 a little 8-year-old girl named Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the Editor of the New York Sun asking "Is there a Santa Claus?". It seems some of her friends had told her there was no Santa Claus. A Sun newsman named Francis Pharcellus Church penned a response that was printed in the form of an editorial on September 21, 1897, assuring Virginia that indeed there is a Santa Claus.
