December 25

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December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining. It is the 300th day counting from March 1, every year.

Table of contents

1 Events:
2 Births:
3 Deaths:
4 Holidays and Observances:
5 See Also:

Events:

800 - Coronation of Charlemagne.
1066 - Coronation of William the Conqueror at Westminster Abbey.
1223 - Saint Francis of Assisi assembles the first Nativity scene
1776 - George Washington crosses the Delaware River
1818 - The first performance of "Silent Night" (Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria)
1837 - Battle of Okeechobee - United States forces defeat Seminole Indians
1868 - US President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War rebels.
1914 - Just after midnight on Christmas morning, German troops cease firing their guns and artillery and start singing Christmas carols. Crossing the No man's land, they trade gifts with the enemy forces that face them. The truce lasts for three days.
1917 - Why Marry, first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City
1926 - Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan, replacing the Taisho Emperor.
1932 - A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills ~70,000 people
1939 - Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol was read on radio for the first time (CBS radio)
1939 - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is introduced by Montgomery Ward stores
1941 - Hong Kong surrenders to the Japanese
1947 - The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect.
1973 - The ARPANET crashes when a programming bug causes all ARPANET traffic to be routed through the server at Harvard University, causing the server to freeze
1974 - A cyclone devastates Darwin, Australia
1977 - Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with President of Egypt Anwar Sadat
1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day).

Births:

1 BC (observed): birth of Jesus Christ, considered to be the Son of God (by Christians); also considered an ascetic prophet of Islam. The date of Christ's birth is celebrated on several different days, worldwide.
1642 - Sir Isaac Newton, physicist and mathematician († 1727)
1742 - Charlotte von Stein, girlfriend of Goethe († 1827)
1763 - Claude Chappe, telecommunications pioneer semaphore lines († 1805)
1771 - Dorothy Wordsworth, diarist and sister of William Wordsworth († 1855)
1821 - Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross († 1912)
1856 - Hans von Bartels, German painter († 1913)
1863 - Charles Path? movie producer
1876 - Muhammed Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan (disputed) († 1948)
1883 - Maurice Utrillo, a "Montmartre" artist († 1955)
1886 - Kid Ory, jazz musician († 1973)
1887 - Conrad Nicholson Hilton, hotelier († 1979)
1899 - Humphrey Bogart, actor († 1957)
1901- Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
1906 - Sir Lew Grade, film producer († 1998)
1907 - Cab Calloway, bandleader († 1994)
1908 - Quentin Crisp, author, activist for homosexuals († 1999)
1908 - Helen Twelvetrees, actress († 1958)
1912 - Tony Martin, singer
1913 - Henri Nannen, journalist and publisher († 1966)
1915 - Pete Rugolo, bandleader
1918 - Anwar Sadat, Egyptian president († 1981)
1924 - Rod Serling, scriptwriter, host of The Twilight Zone) († 1975)
1925 - Carlos Castaneda, author († 1998)
1932 - Little Richard, singer
1936 - Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent
1936 - Ismail Merchant, movie producer
1943 - Hanna Schygulla, actress
1945 - Noel Redding, bassist: The Jimi Hendrix Experience († 2003)
1945 - Gary Sandy, actor
1945 - Kenny Stabler, American football player
1946 - Jimmy Buffett, singer, songwriter
1946 - Larry Csonka, American football player
1948 - Barbara Mandrell, singer, actress
1949 - Sissy Spacek, actress
1954 - Robin Campbell, guitarist and singer of UB40
1954 - Annie Lennox, singer of Eurythmics
1958 - Rickey Henderson, baseball player
1971 - Dido, singer

Deaths:

795 - Pope Adrian I
1635 - Samuel de Champlain - French explorer, founder of Quebec City.
1683 - Kara Mustafa, Ottoman pasha and general who lost the Battle of Vienna.
1880 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor, (*1880)
1933 - Francesc Maci?/A>, President of Generalitat, Autonomous government of Catalonia
1938 - Karel Capek, Czech author, inventor of the word robot
1946 - W. C. Fields, actor, comedian
1951 - Harry T. Moore, civil rights activist: assassinated
1957 - Charles Path? movie producer
1963 - Tristan Tzara, poet and essayist
1973 - 1977 - Charlie Chaplin, actor
1983 - 1989 - Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (executed)
1989 - Billy Martin, baseball player, manager
1995 - Dean Martin, singer, actor
1996 - JonBenet Ramsey, murder victim
2002 - Iñigo Cavero, Spanish politician
2003 - Phil Goldman, co-founder of WebTV Networks, Inc

Holidays and Observances:

The Christmas holiday is celebrated on this day in Western Christianity. This day always falls on the same day of the week as New Years Day (January 1).