About December 24
December 24, 2024 is the 359th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 7 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 36 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 24
- 563 –The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by earthquakes.
- 1294 –Pope Boniface VIII is elected Pope, replacing St. Celestine V, who had resigned.
- 1818 –The first performance of “Silent Night” takes place in the church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.
- 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.
- 1914 –World War I: The “Christmas truce” begins.
- 1924 –Albania becomes a republic.
- 1939 –World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
- 1942 –World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers.
- 1951 –Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
- 1955 –NORAD Tracks Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition.
- 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.
- 1997 –The Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.
- 2000 –The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is murdered during the robbery.
- 2003 –The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid’s busy Chamartín Station.
- 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.
- 2008 –Lord’s Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks on Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400.
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