What are the important events that happened on December 25? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
December 25: Facts & Myths About This Day
December 25 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 12, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,918,080 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectahexacontagon’ day.
Capricorn is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,387 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 25 Historical Events
- 1100 –Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity.
- 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.
- 1965 –The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People’s Organisation is founded in Taiz
- 1968 –42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers.
- 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.
- 2009 –Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully attempts a terrorist attack against the US while on board a flight to Detroit Metro Airport Northwest Airlines Flight 253
Who were born on December 25?
- 1250 –John IV Laskaris, Byzantine Emperor (d. c. 1305)
- 1652 –Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (d. 1713)
- 1856 –Hans von Bartels, German painter (d. 1913)
- 1873 –Otto Frederick Hunziker, Swiss-born American dairy educator (d. 1959)
- 1918 –Ahmed Ben Bella, politician, first President of Algeria
- 1924 –Rod Serling, American television writer (d. 1975)
- 1955 –Alannah Myles, Canadian singer
- 1964 –Tim Royes – Music Video Director and Editor
- 1970 –Nagma, Indian actress
- 1978 –Joel Porter, Australian footballer
Who died on December 25?
- 1880 –Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss jurist (b. 1828)
- 1957 –Charles Pathé, French pioneer of film and record industries (b. 1863)
- 1973 –Gabriel Voisin, French aviator (b. 1880)
- 1997 –Anatoli Boukreev, Kazakh mountaineer (b. 1958)
- 2002 –William T. Orr, American television producer (b. 1917)
- 2005 –Birgit Nilsson, Swedish opera singer (b. 1918)
- 2007 –Jim Beauchamp, American baseball player (b. 1939)
- 2007 –Mighty King Kong, Kenyan reggae musician (b. 1973)
- 2008 –Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (b. 1927)
- 2011 –Ben Breedlove, YouTube Celebrity (b. 1993)
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