About December 25
December 25, 2024 is the 360th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 6 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 35 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 25
- 333 –Emperor Constantine the Great elevates his youngest son Constans to the rank of Caesar.
- 1000 –The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
- 1066 –William the Conqueror is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.
- 1100 –Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity.
- 1261 –John IV Lascaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaeologus.
- 1776 –George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River to attack the Kingdom of Great Britain’s Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey.
- 1850 –Jagannath Temple, Nayagarh is built.
- 1914 –World War I: Known as the Christmas truce, German and British troops on the Western Front temporarily cease fire.
- 1926 –Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.
- 1932 –A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.
- 1941 –Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
- 1947 –The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect.
- 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.
- 1963 –Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
- 1968 –42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers.
- 1974 –Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.
- 1989 –Nicolae Ceauşescu, former communist President of Romania and his wife, First-Deputy Prime-Minister Elena are condemned to death and executed after a flawed and summary trial.
- 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.
- 2003 –The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing.
- 2007 –A tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escapes from its enclosure and attacks three people, killing one.
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