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Events on the 25th of December in history

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25 Dec 0001 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus
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25 Dec 0333 Roman Emperor Constantine the Great elevates his youngest son Constans to the rank of Caesar.
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25 Dec 0336 First documentary sign of Christmas celebration in Rome.
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25 Dec 0337 Earliest possible date that Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
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25 Dec 0350 Vetranio meets Constantius II at Naissus (Serbia) and is forced to abdicate his title (Caesar). Constantius allows him to live as a private citizen on a state pension.
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25 Dec 0352 1st definite date Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
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25 Dec 0390 Roman emperor Theodosius admits debt on mass murder in Thessalonica
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25 Dec 0496 Clovis I, king of the Franks, is baptized into the Catholic faith at Reims, by Saint Remigius.
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25 Dec 0498 French king Clovis baptises himself
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25 Dec 0597 Augustine of Canterbury and his fellow-labourers baptise in Kent more than 10,000 Anglo-Saxons.
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25 Dec 0597 England adopts Julian calendar
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25 Dec 0604 Battle at Etampes (Stampae): Burgundy beat Neustriers
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25 Dec 0795 Adrian I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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25 Dec 0800 The Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
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25 Dec 0800 Pope Leo III crowns Charles the Great (Charlemagne), Roman emperor
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25 Dec 0875 Charles, the Bare, crowned emperor of Rome
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25 Dec 0967 John XIII crowned Otto II the Red German compassionate emperor
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25 Dec 0969 Johannes I Tzimisces, crowned emperor of Byzantium
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25 Dec 0979 Rotardus appointed as bishop of the kingdom
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25 Dec 0999 Heribertus becomes bishop of Cologne
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25 Dec 1000 The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
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25 Dec 1000 Monarch Istv
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25 Dec 1025 Coronation of Mieszko II Lambert as king of Poland.
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25 Dec 1046 Pope Clemens VI crowns Henry III Roman Catholic-German emperor
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25 Dec 1048 Parliament of Worms: Emperor Henry III names his cousin count Bruno van Egisheim/Dagsburg as Pope Leo IX
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25 Dec 1066 William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.
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25 Dec 1066 William the Conqueror, crowned king of England
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25 Dec 1076 Coronation of Bolesław II the Generous as king of Poland.
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25 Dec 1100 Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity.
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25 Dec 1100 Boudouin I of Boulogne crowned king of Jerusalem
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25 Dec 1101 Henry I of Limburg becomes duke of Netherlands-Lutherans
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25 Dec 1121 Norbertus van Xanten finds order of the Norbertijnen
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25 Dec 1130 Count Roger II of Sicily is crowned the first king of Sicily.
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25 Dec 1130 Anti-pope Anacletus II crowns Roger II the Norman, king of Sicily
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25 Dec 1223 St Francis of Assisi assembles 1st Nativity scene (Greccio, Italy)
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25 Dec 1261 John IV Laskaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaiologos.
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25 Dec 1492 Carrack Santa María captained by Christopher Columbus runs onto reefs off Haiti due to a proper watch not being kept. Local natives help to save food, armory and ammunition but not the ship.
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25 Dec 1492 Columbus' ship Santa Maria docks at Dominican Republic
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25 Dec 1522 Turkish troops occupy Rhodos
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25 Dec 1553 Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeat the Spanish conquistadors and executes the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia.
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25 Dec 1559 Pope Pius IV is elected.
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25 Dec 1582 Zealand/Brabant adopts Gregorian calendar, yesterday was Dec 14th
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25 Dec 1613 Johan Sigismund of Brandenburg becomes protestant
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25 Dec 1621 Governor William Bradford of Plymouth forbids game playing on Christmas day
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25 Dec 1640 Pierre de Fermat writes to Marin Mersenne about Fermat's church thesis
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25 Dec 1641 Emperor Ferdinand III makes appointments with Sweden & France
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25 Dec 1643 Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean found and named by Captain William Mynors of the English East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary.
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25 Dec 1651 Massachusetts General Court ordered a fine (five shillings) for "observing any such day as Christmas"
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25 Dec 1683 English Whig-leader duke of Monmouth flees to Holland
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25 Dec 1688 English king James II lands in Ambleteuse, France
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25 Dec 1688 Lord Delamere sides with King James II
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25 Dec 1717 Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces, 1000s killed
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25 Dec 1741 Astronomer Anders Celcius introduces Centigrade temperature scale
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25 Dec 1745 Prussia / Austria signs Treaty of Dresden
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25 Dec 1745 Treaty of Dresden gives much of Silesia to the Prussians
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25 Dec 1745 Prussia/Austria signs Treaty of Dresden; gives much of Silesia to the Prussians
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25 Dec 1758 Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return
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25 Dec 1760 Juptier Hammon, New York slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Throught"
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25 Dec 1775 Pope Pius VI encyclical on the problems of the pontificate
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25 Dec 1776 Washington crosses Delaware and surprises and defeats 1,400 Hessians
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25 Dec 1776 George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day.
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25 Dec 1809 Dr. Ephraim McDowell performs the first ovariotomy, removing a 22-pound tumor.
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25 Dec 1814 Rev. Samuel Marsden holds the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at Rangihoua Bay.
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25 Dec 1815 The Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance.
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25 Dec 1818 1st known Christmas carol ("Silent Night, Holy Night") sung (Austria)
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25 Dec 1818 1st US performance of H
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25 Dec 1818 1st known Christmas carol ("Silent Night, Holy Night" by Franz Joseph Gruber & Joseph Mohr) sung (Austria)
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25 Dec 1826 The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy concludes after beginning the previous evening.
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25 Dec 1830 Hector Berlioz's "Symphony Fantastic" premieres
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25 Dec 1831 Louisiana & Arkansas are 1st states to observe Christmas as holiday
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25 Dec 1832 Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in St Martin at Cape Receiver
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25 Dec 1833 Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in Port Desire, Patagonia
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25 Dec 1834 Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas on Beagle at Tres Montes, Chile
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25 Dec 1835 Charles Darwin company celebrates Christmas in Pahia, New Zealand
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25 Dec 1837 Second Seminole War: American general Zachary Taylor leads 1100 troops against the Seminoles at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee.
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25 Dec 1837 Battle of Okeechobee-US forces defeat Seminole Indians
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25 Dec 1843 1st theatre matinee (Olympic Theatre, New York NY)
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25 Dec 1848 New Haven Railroad opens
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25 Dec 1862 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, South Carolina
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25 Dec 1868 United States President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
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25 Dec 1868 Despite bitter opposition, President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion (the Civil War)
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25 Dec 1875 Lambs Club in New York forms
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25 Dec 1875 The Lambs Club in New York is founded
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25 Dec 1888 1st indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia
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25 Dec 1894 1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, University of Chicago defeats Stanford 24-4 at Palo Alto, CA in football
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25 Dec 1896 "Stars & Stripes Forever" written by John Philip Sousa
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25 Dec 1899 Farmers send / guide belegerd Ladysmith Kerstpudding / desire in grenade
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25 Dec 1900 Arthur Schnitzlers "Leutnant Gustl" forbidden in Germany
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25 Dec 1901 Battle at Tweefontein Orange-Free state: Boers surprise attack British
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25 Dec 1902 Clyde Fitch' "Girl with Green Eyes" premieres in New York NY
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25 Dec 1905 V Herbert / H Blossoms musical "Mlle Modiste, " premieres in New York City
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25 Dec 1908 Jack Johnson KO Tommy Burns & becomes 1st black heavyweight champion
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25 Dec 1911 Edward Knoblock's "Kismet" premieres in New York NY
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25 Dec 1914 Legendary / unofficial "Christmas Truce" takes place (Brits & Germans)
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25 Dec 1914 A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas.
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25 Dec 1917 "Why Marry, " 1st drama to win Pulitzer Prize, premieres in New York City
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25 Dec 1917 Hirsch/Harbach's musical "Going Up" premieres in New York NY
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25 Dec 1922 Lenin dictates his "Political testament"
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25 Dec 1923 Imperial Theater opens at 249 W 45th St, New York City
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25 Dec 1926 Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito, succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.
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25 Dec 1926 Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan (1926-1989)
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25 Dec 1927 The Vietnamese Nationalist Party is founded.
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25 Dec 1928 Christmas Day attendance at cricket MCG (Victoria vs New South Wales) 14,887
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25 Dec 1928 New South Wales (v Victoria) go from 8-74 to 9-113 to be 9-367 at stumps
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25 Dec 1929 Grimmett takes 6-146 for South Africa, Queensland all out 380 Crowd 5,390
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25 Dec 1930 1st US bobsled run open to public (Lake Placid, NY)
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25 Dec 1930 Mt Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid, New York opens
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25 Dec 1930 1st US bobsled run open to the public (Mount Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid NY)
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25 Dec 1930 Slinger Nitschke scores 142 South Africa vs Queensland at Adelaide before 5,422
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25 Dec 1930 Tasmania all out 280, West Indies 2-139 at Hobart Crowd 2,500
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25 Dec 1931 New York's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio
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25 Dec 1931 Albert Lonergan scores 137 South Africa vs Queensland at Adelaide before 5,697
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25 Dec 1931 Fleetwood-Smith takes 5-69 Victoria vs Tas at Hobart
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25 Dec 1932 A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.
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25 Dec 1932 During King George V Christmas dinner speech, his chair collapes
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25 Dec 1933 Another Christmas Day five-wicket haul by Clarrie Grimmett
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25 Dec 1933 Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor
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25 Dec 1933 Stan Smith takes 8-33 for Victoria vs Tasmania at Hobart
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25 Dec 1934 Four centuries for South Africa as they make 7-644 vs Queensland before 6,180
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25 Dec 1934 Samson Raphaelson's "Accent on Youth" premieres in New York NY
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25 Dec 1936 Belgian bishops condemn fascism & communism
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25 Dec 1936 Ron Hamence scores 104 for South Africa vs Queensland before 4,865
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25 Dec 1937 Arturo Toscanini conducts 1st Symphony of the Air over NBC Radio
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25 Dec 1937 Queensland all out for 93 vs South Africa in front of 10,436
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25 Dec 1938 George Cukor announces Vivien Leigh will play Scarlett O'Hara
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25 Dec 1939 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer
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25 Dec 1939 Grimmett & Ward rip through Queensland except Bill Brown (156)
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25 Dec 1940 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Harts "Pal Joey, " premieres in New York City
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25 Dec 1940 Bradman out 1st ball for South Africa vs Victoria before 6213
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25 Dec 1940 Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's "Pal Joey" premieres in New York NY
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25 Dec 1941 Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
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25 Dec 1941 World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.
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25 Dec 1941 Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces.
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25 Dec 1941 Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
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25 Dec 1941 Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi/Kagu back in Kure, Japan
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25 Dec 1942 Admiral Dalans, murderer of Bosinier de la Chapelle, sentenced to death
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25 Dec 1942 British Colonel S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarters
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25 Dec 1942 Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad
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25 Dec 1946 The first in Europe artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within Soviet F-1 nuclear reactor.
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25 Dec 1946 Constitution accepted in Taiwan
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25 Dec 1947 The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect.
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25 Dec 1947 Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)
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25 Dec 1950 The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.
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25 Dec 1950 Cleveland Browns beat Los Angeles Rams 30-28 in NFL championship game
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25 Dec 1950 Coronation Stone, taken from Scone in Scotland by Edward I in 1296, stolen from Westminster Abbey & smuggled back to Scotland
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25 Dec 1950 Dick Tracy marries Tess Truehart
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25 Dec 1951 West Indies defeat Australia by 6 wickets on 3rd day of 3rd Test Cricket
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25 Dec 1953 Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand)
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25 Dec 1954 WSFA TV channel 12 in Montgomery AL (NBC) begins broadcasting
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25 Dec 1955 Cleveland Browns win NFL championship
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25 Dec 1955 Pope Pius XII encyclical on sacred music & popular music
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25 Dec 1957 Ed Gein found insane of murder
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25 Dec 1957 Ed Gein judged insane and committed to Waupan State Hospital for a life sentence for the murders of Mary Hogan and Bernice Worden
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25 Dec 1958 Alan Freed's Christmas Rock & Roll Spectacular opens
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25 Dec 1959 A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swastikas
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25 Dec 1959 Richard Starkey [Ringo Starr] receives his 1st drum set
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25 Dec 1959 Sony brings transistor TV 8-301 to the market
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25 Dec 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
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25 Dec 1963 Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
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25 Dec 1963 Walt Disney's "The Sword In The Stone" is released
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25 Dec 1964 "Goldfinger" premieres in US
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25 Dec 1964 "Goldfinger" premieres in US
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25 Dec 1964 George Harrison's girlfriend Patti Boyd attacked by female Beatle fans
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25 Dec 1965 The Yemeni Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Ta'izz
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25 Dec 1967 Paul McCartney & Jane Asher get engaged
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25 Dec 1968 Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
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25 Dec 1968 Kilvenmani massacre, 44 Dalits (untouchables) burnt to death in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers.
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25 Dec 1969 5 Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor
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25 Dec 1969 India all out for 163 at Madras vs Australia, Ashley Mallett 5-91
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25 Dec 1971 Longest NFL game (82 minutes 40 seconds) as Dolphins beat Chiefs 27-24
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25 Dec 1971 Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul
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25 Dec 1971 Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) form Jesse Jackson
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25 Dec 1972 England beats India by six wickets in the 1st Test Cricket at Delhi
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25 Dec 1973 Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 year cycle tour (799,405 miles)
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25 Dec 1974 Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia.
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25 Dec 1974 Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.
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25 Dec 1974 Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia
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25 Dec 1976 Egyptian SS Patria sinks in Red Sea, about 100 killed
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25 Dec 1976 Takeo Fukuda becomes Japanese premier
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25 Dec 1977 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Sadat in Egypt
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25 Dec 1977 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with its president Anwar Sadat.
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25 Dec 1977 Israeli PM Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with Egyptian President Sadat
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25 Dec 1979 USSR airlifts invasionary army to Afghanistan
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25 Dec 1979 Opening day of 4th Test Cricket, India 8-112 vs Pakistan at Kanpur
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25 Dec 1982 Mudassar Nazar scores century, then Imran rips through Indians
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25 Dec 1983 1st live telecast of Christmas Parade
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25 Dec 1984 NBA's Bernard King scores 60 points
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25 Dec 1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who escaped 2 days earlier, recaptured
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25 Dec 1989 Deposed President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, First-Deputy Prime-Minister Elena Ceaușescu are condemned to death and executed after a summary trial.
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25 Dec 1989 Japanese scientist achieves -271.8
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25 Dec 1990 "Godfather III" premieres
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25 Dec 1990 "Godfather III" premieres
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25 Dec 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigned as President of the USSR
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25 Dec 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as General Secretary of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
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25 Dec 1991 Last day of a washout Pakistan vs Sri Lanka at Gujranwala
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25 Dec 1994 "Comedy Tonight" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 8 performances
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25 Dec 1997 For 1st time US movie box office receipts pass $6 billion
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25 Dec 1997 Jerry Seinfeld says this is the final season of his TV show
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25 Dec 2000 Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a bill into law that officially establishes a new National Anthem of Russia, with music adopted from the anthem of the Soviet Union that was composed by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov.
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25 Dec 2003 The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing.
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25 Dec 2004 Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
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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
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25 Dec 2012 An Antonov An-72 plane crashes close to the city of Shymkent, killing 27 people.
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