About December 25
December 25, 2025 is the 359th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 6 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 54 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 25
- 350 –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.
- 800 –Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
- 1130 –Count Roger II of Sicily is crowned the first King of Sicily.
- 1850 –Jagannath Temple, Nayagarh is built.
- 1868 –U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
- 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.
- 1927 –The Vietnamese Nationalist Party is founded.
- 1932 –A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1990 –The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.
- 1991 –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.
- 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.
- 2004 –Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn’s moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
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