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.
- 800 –Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
- 1000 –The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
- 1100 –Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity.
- 1130 –Count Roger II of Sicily is crowned the first King of Sicily.
- 1553 –Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeat the Spanish conquistadors and executes the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia.
- 1643 –Christmas Island found and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary.
- 1837 –Battle of Lake Okeechobee.
- 1926 –Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.
- 1927 –The Vietnamese Nationalist Party is founded.
- 1941 –World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong.
- 1946 –The first in Europe artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within Soviet nuclear reactor F-1.
- 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.
- 1974 –Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia.
- 1974 –Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.
- 1990 –The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.
- 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.
- 2007 –A tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escapes from its enclosure and attacks three people, killing one.
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