About December 24

December 24, 2025 is the 358th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 7 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 55 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On December 24

  • 1294 –
    Pope Boniface VIII is elected Pope, replacing St. Celestine V, who had resigned.
  • 1814 –
    The Treaty of Ghent is signed ending the War of 1812.
  • 1851 –
    Library of Congress burns.
  • 1865 –
    The Ku Klux Klan is formed.
  • 1871 –
    Aida opens in Cairo.
  • 1906 –
    Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
  • 1911 –
    Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
  • 1914 –
    World War I: The “Christmas truce” begins.
  • 1924 –
    Albania becomes a republic.
  • 1929 –
    Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.
  • 1939 –
    World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
  • 1941 –
    World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.
  • 1951 –
    Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
  • 1953 –
    Tangiwai disaster: A railway bridge is destroyed by a lahar at Tangiwai, in the Central North Island of New Zealand, sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River, and killing 153 people.
  • 1964 –
    Vietnam War: Viet Cong operatives bomb the Brinks Hotel in Saigon to demonstrate they can strike an American installation in the heavily guarded capital.
  • 1966 –
    A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
  • 1979 –
    The first European Ariane rocket is launched.
  • 1980 –
    Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, an incident called “Britain’s Roswell”.
  • 2000 –
    The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is murdered during the robbery.
  • 2005 –
    Chad–Sudan relations: Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead.

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