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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 25 Dec 1924 | Rod Serling, American screenwriter and producer, created The Twilight Zone (d. 1975) | |||
| 25 Dec 1924 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indian poet and politician, 10th Prime Minister of India | |||
| 25 Dec 1924 | Mih | |||
| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 25 Dec 1949 | Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, Brazilian singer | |||
| 25 Dec 1949 | Nawaz Sharif, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan | |||
| 25 Dec 1949 | Sissy Spacek, American actress and singer | |||
| 25 Dec 1949 | Joe Louis Walker, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer | |||
| 25 Dec 1949 | Leon Schlesinger, American animator and producer, founded Warner Bros. Cartoons (b. 1884) | |||
| 25 Dec 1949 | WW2 | Khabarovsk War Crime Trials against 12 members of the Japanese Kwantung Army began. | ||
| 25 Dec 1949 | Sissy Spacek Quitman TX (Carrie, Badlands, Coal Miner's Daughter) | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 25 Dec 1974 | Chris Naeole: Guard (New Orleans Saints) | |||
| 25 Dec 1974 | Grayson Shillingford: NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks) | |||
| 25 Dec 1974 | Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia | |||
| 25 Dec 1974 | Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, Mexican drug lord (d. 2012) | |||
| 25 Dec 1974 | Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia. | |||
| 25 Dec 1974 | Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff. | |||
| 25 Dec 1974 | Chris Naeole guard (New Orleans Saints) | |||
| 25 Dec 1974 | Grayson Shillingford NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks) | |||
| 25 Dec 1974 | Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia | |||
| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 25 Dec 1999 | Peter Jeffrey, English actor (b. 1929) | |||
25 Dec 1999
Hubble telescope |
Hubble telescope In 1999, space shuttle Discovery's astronauts finished their mainenance work on the Hubble Space Telescope, installing correcting optics to repair problems due to a design flaw in the mirror. The first images the Hubble Telescope took after its original launch were disappointingly fuzzy, but after this repair mission the instrument returned crisp images of a clarity never before possible from terrestrial observatories. |
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| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 25 Dec 2004 | Robert Elliott, American actor (b. 1944) | |||
| 25 Dec 2004 | Gennadi Strekalov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1940) | |||
| 25 Dec 2004 | Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005. | |||
25 Dec 2004
Cassini |
Cassini (space exploration) The Cassini probe successfully drops the Huygens probe, sending it onto a trip to land on Saturn's moon Titan. |
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| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 25 Dec 2009 | Vic Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Brute and The Undertow Orchestra) (b. 1964) | |||
| 25 Dec 2009 | Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully attempts a terrorist attack against the US while on board a flight to Detroit Metro Airport Northwest Airlines Flight 253 | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 25 Dec 2014 | Alberta Adams, American singer (b. 1917) | |||
| 25 Dec 2014 | N. L. Balakrishnan, Indian actor and photographer (b. 1943) | |||
| 25 Dec 2014 | Ricardo Porro, Cuban-French architect (b. 1925) | |||
| 25 Dec 2014 | David Ryall, English actor (b. 1935) | |||
| 25 Dec 2014 | Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and activist (b. 1934) | |||
25 Dec 2014
Mary F. Lyon |
death Mary F. Lyon Mary F. Lyon, 89, British geneticist |
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