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Probably not the answer you're looking for but possibly still relevant/interesting.

If we can believe Wiktionary, it says:

Emphatic form of holy crap.

Going with that...

Using holy as an expletive was answered here answered here.
The word crap according to dictionary.com:

Sense of "rubbish, nonsense" also first recorded 1898

And finally, cracker is quite an old English word (1400s?).

So I'd suspect sometime in the early 1900s, as crap started to pick up momentum as the new shi*, one or more creative souls shouted it in excitement and it thereafter spread. ;)

Probably not the answer you're looking for but possibly still relevant/interesting.

If we can believe Wiktionary, it says:

Emphatic form of holy crap.

Going with that...

Using holy as an expletive was answered here.
The word crap according to dictionary.com:

Sense of "rubbish, nonsense" also first recorded 1898

And finally, cracker is quite an old English word (1400s?).

So I'd suspect sometime in the early 1900s, as crap started to pick up momentum as the new shi*, one or more creative souls shouted it in excitement and it thereafter spread. ;)

Probably not the answer you're looking for but possibly still relevant/interesting.

If we can believe Wiktionary, it says:

Emphatic form of holy crap.

Going with that...

Using holy as an expletive was answered here.
The word crap according to dictionary.com:

Sense of "rubbish, nonsense" also first recorded 1898

And finally, cracker is quite an old English word (1400s?).

So I'd suspect sometime in the early 1900s, as crap started to pick up momentum as the new shi*, one or more creative souls shouted it in excitement and it thereafter spread. ;)

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Probably not the answer you're looking for but possibly still relevant/interesting.

If we can believe Wiktionary, it says:

Emphatic form of holy crap.

Going with that...

Using holy as an expletive was answered here.
The word crap according to dictionary.com:

Sense of "rubbish, nonsense" also first recorded 1898

And finally, cracker is quite an old English word (1400s?).

So I'd suspect sometime in the early 1900s, as crap started to pick up momentum as the new shi*, one or more creative souls shouted it in excitement and it thereafter spread. ;)