About December 25
December 25, 2021 is the 359th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 6 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 38 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.
- 1553 –Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeat the Spanish conquistadors and executes the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
- 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.
- 1968 –42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1990 –The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.
- 2004 –Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn’s moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
- 2007 –A tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escapes from its enclosure and attacks three people, killing one.
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