December 25th Events |
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| December 25th, 2004 (December 25 2004) | Event | Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn s moon Titan on January 14, 2005. | |
| December 25th, 2003 (December 25 2003) | Event | The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe which was released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing. | |
| December 25th, 1991 (December 25 1991) | Event | Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine s referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union. | |
| December 25th, 1990 (December 25 1990) | Event | The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web. | |
| December 25th, 1989 (December 25 1989) | Event | Nicolae Ceausescu, former communist dictator of Romania, and his wife Elena are condemned to death and executed under a wide range of charges. | |
| December 25th, 1979 (December 25 1979) | Event | The Soviet Union airlifts forces into Afghanistan to begin its costly occupation. | |
| December 25th, 1977 (December 25 1977) | Event | Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with President of Egypt Anwar Sadat. | Menachem Begin Quotes |
| December 25th, 1974 (December 25 1974) | Event | Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia. | |
| December 25th, 1974 (December 25 1974) | Event | Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff. | |
| December 25th, 1973 (December 25 1973) | Event | The ARPANET crashes when a programming bug causes all ARPANET traffic to be routed through the server at Harvard University, causing the server to freeze. | |
| December 25th, 1968 (December 25 1968) | Event | 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. | |
| December 25th, 1968 (December 25 1968) | Event | 42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers. | |
| December 25th, 1965 (December 25 1965) | Event | The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People s Organisation is founded in Taiz | |
| December 25th, 1963 (December 25 1963) | Event | Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots were forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. | |
| December 25th, 1950 (December 25 1950) | Event | 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. | |
| December 25th, 1947 (December 25 1947) | Event | The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect. | |
| December 25th, 1941 (December 25 1941) | Event | Admiral Chester W Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet | |
| December 25th, 1941 (December 25 1941) | Event | World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong. | |
| December 25th, 1932 (December 25 1932) | Event | A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills ~70,000 people. | |
| December 25th, 1926 (December 25 1926) | Event | Emperor Taisho of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Showa. | |
| December 25th, 1914 (December 25 1914) | Event | World War I: Known as the Christmas truce, German and British troops on the Western Front temporarily cease fire. | |
| December 25th, 1868 (December 25 1868) | Event | U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers. | Andrew Johnson Quotes |
| December 25th, 1837 (December 25 1837) | Event | Battle of Lake Okeechobee: United States forces defeat Seminole Native Americans. | |
| December 25th, 1818 (December 25 1818) | Event | The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria. | |
| December 25th, 1776 (December 25 1776) | Event | George Washington and his army cross the Delaware River to attack the Kingdom of Great Britain s Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey. | George Washington Quotes |
| December 25th, 1643 (December 25 1643) | Event | Christmas Island founded and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Ship Company vessel, the Royal Mary. | |
| December 25th, 1599 (December 25 1599) | Event | The city of Natal, Brazil is founded. | |
| December 25th, 1553 (December 25 1553) | Event | Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeats the Spanish conquistadors and exetutes the governor of Chile Pedro de Valdivia. | |
| December 25th, 1261 (December 25 1261) | Event | John IV Lascaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaeologus. | |
| December 25th, 1223 (December 25 1223) | Event | St. Francis of Assisi assembles the first Nativity scene. | Francis of Assisi Quotes |
| December 25th, 1130 (December 25 1130) | Event | Roger II of Sicily is crowned as the first King of Sicily | |
| December 25th, 1100 (December 25 1100) | Event | Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned as the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity | |
| December 25th, 1066 (December 25 1066) | Event | Coronation of William the Conqueror as king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London. | William King Quotes |
| December 25th, 1000 (December 25 1000) | Event | The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary. | Stephen King Quotes |
| December 25th, 0800 (December 25 0800) | Event | Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome. | Charlemagne Quotes |
| December 25th, 0274 (December 25 0274) | Event | Roman Emperor Aurelian dedicates a temple to Sol Invictus on the supposed day of the winter solstice and day of rebirth of the Sun. | |
