Dec 25
Noun 1. a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland (synonym) Christmas, Christmas Day, Xmas (hypernym) legal holiday, national holiday (part-holonym) December, Dec | ||||
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dec 25
n : a christian holiday celebrating the birth of christ; a quarter day in england, wales, and ireland [syn: christmas, christmas day, xmas, dec 25]
dec 25
n : a christian holiday celebrating the birth of christ; a quarter day in england, wales, and ireland [syn: christmas, christmas day, xmas, dec 25]
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December 25
Events
- 274 - Roman Emperor Aurelian has a temple dedicated to Sol Invictus on the supposed day of the winter solstice and day of rebirth of the Sun.
- 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.
- 1066 - Coronation of William the Conqueror as king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.
- 1100 - Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned as the first King of Jerusalem
- 1223 - St. Francis of Assisi assembles the first Nativity scene.
- 1261 - John IV Lascaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaeologus.
- 1599 - The city of Natal, Brazil is founded.
- 1643 - Christmas Island founded and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Ship Company vessel, the Royal Mary.
- 1650 - Thomas Cooper, former Usher of Gresham's School, England, hanged as a Royalist rebel.
- 1776 - George Washington and his army cross the Delaware River to attack the Kingdom of Great Britain's Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey.
- 1818 - The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.
- 1837 - Battle of Lake Okeechobee: United States forces defeat Seminole Indians.
- 1868 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
- 1868 - Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
- 1914 - World War I: Known as the Christmas truce, German and British troops on the Western Front temporarily cease fire.
- 1917 - Why Marry?, first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City.
- 1919 - An Earthquake destroys the small city of Taibawana, a small African village. Years later, scientists suspect the earthquake was caused by the birth of the star Mr. T's mother.
- 1926 - Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.
- 1932 - A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills ~70,000 people.
- 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.
- 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 began transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots were forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
- 1965 - The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Taiz
- 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.
- 1971 - In the longest game in NFL history (82m40s of game time), the Miami Dolphins defeat the Kansas City Chiefs at Kansas City Municipal Stadium 27-24.
- 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 - 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.
- 1977 - Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with President of Egypt Anwar Sadat.
- 1979 - The Soviet Union airlifts forces into Afghanistan to begin its costly occupation.
- 1987 - In one of the highest-rated episodes in Coronation Street history, Hilda Ogden leaves her home of 23 years to be a char to her doctor in the country.
- 1989 - Nicolae Ceauşescu, former communist dictator of Romania, and his wife Elena are condemned to death and executed under a wide range of charges.
- 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.
- 2003 - The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe which was released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing.
- 2004 - Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
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