24 December
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The24t o Decemberis the 358t day o the year (359t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 7 days bidin.
Events
- 1717- TheNorth SeaChristenmasflood kills 11,500 fowk.
- 1726-Montevideo,caipital ceety oUruguay,is foondit.
- 1777-James CookreachesKiritimati(criedChristenmasIsland an aa) in theLine Islandsin present-dayKiribati,Pacific Ocean.
- 1818- The Silent NichtChristenmascarol is first performed inAustrick.
- 1865- TheKu Klux Klanis foondit.
- 1914- TheChristenmasTruce occurs duringWarld War I.
- 1924-Albaniebecomes a republic.
- 1951-Libiegains unthirldom fraeItaly.
- 1953- 153 fowk are kilt in the Tangiwai rail disaster inNew Zealand.
- 1954-Laosis declarit independent.
- 1968- The crew oApollo 8taks a photograph o theyird.
- 1974-CycloneTracy sweeps across the ceety oDarwin,Northren Territory,Australie.
- 1979- The firstEuropean-biggit rocket, Ariane, is launched fraeFrench Guiana.
- 1997-VenezuelanterroristCarlos the Jackalis sentencit tae 20 year in gaol bi a coort inParis.
- 2013- QueenElizabeth IIpardonsAlan Turing,who had been convictit ohomosexualitywhen it was still illegal in theUnitit Kinrick.
- 2017-Alberto Fujimori,umwhilePresesoPeru,is pardoned on heal groonds.
- 2017-Guatemalapropales its plan tae muive its Embassy inIsraelfraeTel AvivtaeJerusalem.
- 2018- The govrenment oBurundidecides tae muive the kintra's caipital fraeBujumburataeGitenga.
Births
- 3 BC-Galba,Roman Emperor (d.69)
- 1166-John, Keeng o Ingland(d.1216)
- 1761-Selim III,Ottoman Sultan (d.1808)
- 1786-Gregor MacGregor,Scots sodger, adventurer an confidence trickster (d.1845)
- 1798-Adam Mickiewicz,Polish poet (d.1855)
- 1818-James Prescott Joule,Inglis pheesicist (d.1889)
- 1837-Empress Elisabeth o Austrick(d.1898)
- 1843-Lydia Koidula,Estonie poet (d.1886)
- 1845- KingGeorge I o Greece(d.1913)
- 1868-Emanuel Lasker,German chess player (d.1941)
- 1905-Howard Hughes,American business tycoon an aviator (d.1976)
- 1927-Mary Higgins Clark,American writer (d.2020)
- 1938-Philippe Nahon,French actor (d.2020)
- 1943-Tarja Halonen,umwhilePresesoFinland
- 1945-Lemmy Kilmister,Inglis muisicker (Motörhead) (d.2015)
- 1946-Jeff Sessions,84tUnitit StatesAttorney General
- 1957-Hamid Karzai,umwhilePresesoAfghanistan
- 1958-Philippa Whitford,Scots surgeon an politeecian
- 1961-Ilham Aliyev,PresesoAzerbaijan
- 1962-Kate Spade,American fashion designer (d.2018)
- 1969-Ed Miliband,Inglis politeecian
- 1971-Ricky Martin,Puerto Rican sangster an actor
- 1973-Stephenie Meyer,American author
- 1974-Marcelo Salas,Chilean fitbawer
- 1981-Dima Bilan,Roushie sangster
Daiths
- 1524-Vasco da Gama,Portuguese splorer (b.1469)
- 1863-William Makepeace Thackeray,Inglis writer (b.1811)
- 1872-William John Macquorn Rankine,Scots medicinar an ingineer (b.1820)
- 1914-John Muir,Scots-American conservationist (b.1838)
- 1979-Rudi Dutschke,German student leader (b.1940)
- 1980-Karl Dönitz,German admiral an politeecian (b.1891)
- 1985-Erich Schaedler,Scots fitbawer (b.1949)
- 2008-Harold Pinter,Inglis playwricht (b.1930)
- 2011-Johannes Heesters,Dutch-born actor an sangster (b.1903)
- 2012-Charles Durning,American actor (b.1923)
- 2016-Rick Parfitt,Inglis muisicker (b.1948)
- 2016-Richard Adams,Inglis writer (b.1920)
- 2016-Edwin Reinecke,American politeecian (b.1924)
Halidays
- Sowans nicht-ChristenmasE'en
- Independence Day (Libie)
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