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25 Dec 1046
Pope Clemens VI crowns Henry III as Holy Roman Emperor
25 Dec 1048
Parliament of Worms Emperor Henry III names his cousin Count Bruno van Egisheim-Dagsburg as Pope Leo IX
25 Dec 1066
Duke William of Normandy (William the Conqueror) crowned King of England
25 Dec 1100
Boudouin I of Boulogne crowned King of Jerusalem
25 Dec 1101
Henry I of Limburg becomes Duke of Lower Lorraine
25 Dec 1121
Norbertus van Xanten finds order of the Norbertijnen
25 Dec 1130
Anti-pope Anacletus II crowns Roger II the Norman king of Sicily
25 Dec 1261
John IV Lascaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaeologus.
25 Dec 1553
Battle of Tucapel Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeats the Spanish conquistadors and exetutes the governor of Chile Pedro de Valdivia.
25 Dec 1582
Zealand and Brabant adopts Gregorian calendar yesterday was Dec 14th
25 Dec 1613
Johan Sigismund of Brandenburg becomes protestant
25 Dec 1640
Pierre de Fermat writes to Marin Mersenne about Fermats church thesis
25 Dec 1641
Emperor Ferdinand III makes appointments with Sweden and France
25 Dec 1643
Christmas Island founded and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Ship Company vessel the Royal Mary.
25 Dec 1651
Massachusetts General Court ordered a five shilling fine for observing any such day as Christmas
25 Dec 1683
English Whig leader Duke of Monmouth flees to Holland
25 Dec 1688
British King James II lands in Ambleteuse France
25 Dec 1717
Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces thousands killed
25 Dec 1745
Prussia and Austria sign Treaty of Dresden giving much of Silesia to the Prussians
25 Dec 1758
Return of Halleys comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch
25 Dec 1760
Jupiter Hammon an African American slave composes poetry broadside An Evening Thought (1st poetry published by an African American 1761)
25 Dec 1769
First Christian service in New Zealand Mass is celebrated in Doubtless Bay by Father Paul-Antoine Lonard de Villefeix of the de Surville expedition
25 Dec 1775
Pope Pius VI encyclical on the problems of the pontificate
25 Dec 1809
Physician Ephraim McDowell performs the first abdominal surgery in the U.S an ovariotomy to remove a 22 lb ovarian tumor
25 Dec 1814
Reverend Samuel Marsden of the Church Missionary Society holds the first Christian service in New Zealand on land at Rangihoua
25 Dec 1818
1st known Christmas carol (Silent Night Holy Night - Stille Nacht Heilige Nacht) sung (Austria)
25 Dec 1818
Handels Messiah premieres in the US in Boston
25 Dec 1830
Hector Berliozs Symphony Fantastic premieres
25 Dec 1831
Louisiana & Arkansas are first states to observe Christmas as holiday
25 Dec 1837
Battle of Okeechobee-US forces defeat Seminole Indians
25 Dec 1862
40000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head South Carolina
25 Dec 1888
1st indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia
25 Dec 1894
1st midwestern football team to play on west coast University of Chicago defeats Stanford 24-4 at Palo Alto CA in football
25 Dec 1899
Shelling on besieged Ladysmith during the Boer War includes one shell containing a plum pudding
25 Dec 1900
Arthur Schnitzlers Leutnant Gustl forbidden in Germany
25 Dec 1901
Battle at Tweefontein British force camped on a hill is surprised by a Boer attack at 2am
25 Dec 1902
Clyde Fitch Girl with Green Eyes premieres in NYC
25 Dec 1902
Pope Leo XIII at his annual Christmas reception endorses the Christian Democratic movement now emerging in Europe as an attempt to offer an alternative to more radical movements
25 Dec 1905
V HerbertH Blossoms musical Mlle Modiste premieres in NYC
25 Dec 1914
Legendary Christmas Truce takes place on the battlefields of WWI between British and German troops. Instead of fighting soldiers exchange gifts and play football
25 Dec 1917
Why Marry 1st drama to win Pulitzer Prize premieres in NYC
25 Dec 1917
Louis Hirsch and Otto Harbachs musical Going Up premieres in New York City
25 Dec 1928
Christmas Day attendance at cricket MCG (Vic v NSW) Australia is 14887
25 Dec 1928
NSW (v Vic) go from 8-74 to 9-113 to be 9-367 at stumps
25 Dec 1929
Grimmett takes 6-146 for SA Queensland all out 380 Crowd 5390
25 Dec 1930
Mt Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid NY opens 1st US bobsled run open to public
25 Dec 1930
Slinger Nitschke scores 142 SA v Qld at Adelaide before 5422
25 Dec 1930
Tasmania all out 280 WI 2-139 at Hobart Crowd 2500
25 Dec 1931
Albert Lonergan scores 137 SA v Qld at Adelaide before 5697
25 Dec 1931
Fleetwood-Smith takes 5-69 Victoria v Tas at Hobart
25 Dec 1931
NYs Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio
25 Dec 1932
7.6 magnitude earthquake ravages Qansu China kills 275
25 Dec 1933
Another Christmas Day five-wicket haul by Clarrie Grimmett
25 Dec 1933
Belgian Working peoples party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor
25 Dec 1933
Stan Smith takes 8-33 for Victoria v Tasmania at Hobart
25 Dec 1934
Four centuries for SA as they make 7-644 v Qld before 6180
25 Dec 1934
Samson Raphaelsons Accent on Youth premieres in NYC
25 Dec 1936
Ron Hamence scores 104 for SA v Queensland before 4865
25 Dec 1937
Arturo Toscanini conducts 1st Symphony of the Air over NBC Radio
25 Dec 1937
Queensland all out for 93 v SA in front of 10436
25 Dec 1939
Grimmett & Ward rip through Qld except Bill Brown (156)
25 Dec 1939
Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th red-nosed reindeer
25 Dec 1940
Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Harts Pal Joey premieres in NYC
25 Dec 1941
Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
25 Dec 1941
Japanese aircraft carriers AkagiKagu back in Kure Japan
25 Dec 1942
Admiral Dalans murderer of Bosinier de la Chapelle sentenced to death
25 Dec 1942
British Colonel S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarter
25 Dec 1942
Soviet artillery and tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad
25 Dec 1947
Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)
25 Dec 1947
Constitution of the Republic of China comes into effect
25 Dec 1950
Coronation Stone taken from Scone in Scotland by Edward I in 1296 stolen from Westminster Abbey & smuggled back to Scotland
25 Dec 1951
1st Christmas Day in test cricket Aust v WI at Adelaide
25 Dec 1951
West Indies defeat Australia by 6 wkts on 3rd day of 3rd Test Cricket
25 Dec 1953
Avalanche of lava kills 150 from Ruapehu volcano in New Zealand
25 Dec 1953
KNEV (95.5 The Vibe) radio broadcaster in Reno Nevada begins broadcasting
25 Dec 1954
WSFA TV channel 12 in Montgomery AL (NBC) begins broadcasting
25 Dec 1955
Pope Pius XII encyclical on sacred music & popular music
25 Dec 1956
Detroits future Hockey Hall of Fame right wing Gordie Howe picks up a Xmas hat-trick & 3 assists in Red Wings 8-1 win over NY Rangers most points he scores in a single game in entire 26-year NHL career
25 Dec 1958
Alan Freeds Christmas Rock & Roll Spectacular opens
25 Dec 1959
A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas
25 Dec 1963
Walt Disneys The Sword in the Stone is released
25 Dec 1965
The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist Peoples Organisation is founded in Taiz
25 Dec 1968
42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village Tamil Nadu India a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers
25 Dec 1969
5 Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor
25 Dec 1969
India all out for 163 at Madras v Aust Ashley Mallett 5-91
25 Dec 1971
Longest NFL game (82m40s) as Dolphins beat Chiefs 27-24
25 Dec 1971
Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) formed by Jesse Jackson
25 Dec 1971
Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul
25 Dec 1972
England beat India by six wickets in the 1st Cricket Test in Delhi
25 Dec 1973
Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799405 miles)
25 Dec 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.
25 Dec 1973
Arab oil ministers cancel January 5 percent production cut Saudi Arabian oil minister promises 10 percent OPEC production rise
25 Dec 1973
Ballon dOr Ajax forward Johan Cruyff wins his second award for best European football player ahead of Juventus goalkeeper Dino Zoff and Bayern Munich striker Gerd Mller
25 Dec 1974
Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia
25 Dec 1974
Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House resulting in a four-hour standoff.
25 Dec 1976
Egyptian SS Patria sinks in Red Sea about 100 killed
25 Dec 1979
Opening day of 4th Test Cricket India 8-112 v Pakistan at Kanpur
25 Dec 1979
Soviet forces invade Afghanistan to prop up the Communist government beginning a disastrous and failed ten-year war
25 Dec 1979
Ballon dOr Hamburgs English forward Kevin Keegan wins his 2nd consecutive trophy as best football player in Europe beats Bayern Munich forward Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Ajax sweeper Ruud Krol
25 Dec 1982
Mudassar Nazar scores century then Imran Khan rips through Indians
25 Dec 1983
1st live telecast of Christmas Parade at the EPCOT Centre Disney World Florida
25 Dec 1984
Ballon dOr Juventus French midfielder Michel Platini is named Europes best football player for the 2nd consecutive time beats Bordeaux midfielder Jean Tigana and Verona striker Preben Elkjr
25 Dec 1987
Lynette Squeaky Fromme who escaped 2 days earlier recaptured
25 Dec 1989
Japanese scientist achieve -271.8C coldest temperature ever recorded
25 Dec 1990
Ballon dOr Inters German sweeper Lothar Matthus is named best football player in Europe ahead of Juventus striker Salvatore Schillaci and Inter defender Andreas Brehme
25 Dec 1991
Last day of a washout Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Gujranwala
25 Dec 1994
Comedy Tonight closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 8 performances
25 Dec 1996
1500 year anniversary of Catholicism in France commemorating the baptism of Clovis I in Rheims
25 Dec 1997
For 1st time US movie box office receipts pass 6 billion
25 Dec 2003
The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe which was released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19 disappears shortly before its scheduled landing.
25 Dec 2004
Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturns moon Titan on January 14 2005.
25 Dec 2009
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully attempts a terrorist attack against the US while on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253
25 Dec 2009
Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo sentenced to 11 years in prison in Beijing China for inciting subversion of state power
25 Dec 2012
27 people are killed after an Antonov An-72 plane crashes near Shymkent Kazakhstan
25 Dec 2012
8 people are killed and thousands left homeless after two fires strike Manila Philippines
25 Dec 2016
Russian military defence plane crashes into the Black Sea after takeoff from Sochi airport killing all 92 on board
25 Dec 1194
Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI crowned King of Sicily in Palermo Cathedral
25 Dec 1818
Handels Messiah premieres in the US in Boston performed by The Handel & Haydn Society
25 Dec 1837
Battle of Okeechobee - US forces defeat Seminole Indians
25 Dec 1888
First indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia 2000 watch the Uptowners beat the Downtowners 6-1
25 Dec 1930
Mt Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid NY opens first American bobsled run open to public
25 Dec 1951
West Indies wrap up 6 wicket defeat of Australia on first Christmas Day of Test cricket the 3rd day of 3rd Test at the Adelaide Oval
25 Dec 1971
Longest game in NFL history as Miami Dolphins beat KC Chiefs 27-24 in 2OT in AFL playoff game duration 82 minutes and 40 seconds
25 Dec 1984
Knicks basketball forward Bernard King scores 60 points but New York loses 120-114 to the New Jersey Nets on Xmas Day at Madison Square Garden
25 Dec 1999
Opening of doors of St. John Lateran Pope John Paul II
25 Dec 2020
An RV detonates in downtown Nashville Tennessee causing damage to people and property prior to detonating a recorded message playing from speakers warned anyone in earshot to evacuate prior to an explosion
25 Dec 2020
New Orleans running back Alvin Kamara equals Ernie Nevers 1929 NFL record of 6 touchdowns in a match in the Saints 52-33 win over the Minnesota Vikings at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome
25 Dec 1522
Ottoman troops occupy the island of Rhodes after a six-month siege
25 Dec 1848
William & Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia arriving in Philadelphia Pennsylvania later move to Boston where they become abolitionists [1]
25 Dec 1900
Arthur Schnitzlers novel Leutnant Gustl (None But The Brave) banned in Germany due to its unflattering portrait of military protocol
25 Dec 2021
NASAs James Webb Space Telescope launched in joint effort with ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europes Spaceport in French Guiana South America [1]
25 Dec 1921
Last major Potlatch (ceremony) by Chief Daniel Cranmer (Kwakwakawakw) from Alert Bay British Columbia. Twenty-six people arrested their masks and regalia sold by Canadian government. [1]
25 Dec 1973
1st pictures of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek) taken by NASA astronauts Jerry Carr and William Pogue during a spacewalk from Skylab 4
25 Dec 1999
Pope John Paul II personally opens the Holy Doors of St. John Lateran in Rome to mark the Jubilee
25 Dec 1013
English earls declare Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard the first Viking king of England disposing Ethelred the Unready
25 Dec 1046
Pope Clement VI crowns Henry III as Holy Roman Emperor
25 Dec 1121
Norbert of Xanten later St. Norbert founds the Premonstratensian Order at Prmontr in northern France
25 Dec 1553
Battle of Tucapel Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeats the Spanish conquistadors and executes the governor of Chile Pedro de Valdivia
25 Dec 1818
First known Christmas carol Silent Night Holy Night (Stille Nacht Heilige Nacht) is sung in Austria
25 Dec 1905
Victor Herbert and Henry Blossoms operetta Mlle Modiste opens at the Knickerbocker Theatre NYC runs for 202 performances
25 Dec 1917
Louis Hirsch and Otto Harbachs musical Going Up opens at the Liberty Theater NYC runs for 351 performances
25 Dec 1929
Clarrie Grimmett takes 6-146 for SA Queensland all out 380 Crowd 5390
25 Dec 1931
Fleetwood-Smith takes 5-69 Victoria v Tasmania at Hobart
25 Dec 1931
New Yorks Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire live opera performance for the first time - Englebert Humperdincks Hnsel und Gretel over NBC radio
25 Dec 1939
Clarrie Grimmett & Ward rip through Qld except Bill Brown (156)
25 Dec 2020
Historical romance Bridgerton debuts on Netflix based on the books by Julia Quinn starring Phoebe Dynevor and Reg-Jean Page in Season One
25 Dec 2022
Rare polar rain aurora stretching for 3000 km is visible across the North Pole caused by charged particles flowing from the Sun [1]
25 Dec 2023
Ncuti Gatwa makes his debut as the fifteenth incarnation of Doctor Who in the BBC sci-fi series with Millie Gibson as his companion
25 Dec 1046
Pope Clement II crowns Henry III as Holy Roman Emperor
25 Dec 1758
Return of Halleys Comet first sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch
25 Dec 1760
Jupiter Hammon an African American slave composes the broadside poem An Evening Thought (the first poetry published by an African American in 1761)
25 Dec 1773
Philadelphia Tea Party protest against taxation without representation
25 Dec 1831
Louisiana and Arkansas are the first states to observe Christmas as a holiday
25 Dec 1862
40000 people watch Union Army soldiers play baseball at Hilton Head South Carolina
25 Dec 1902
Clyde Fitch play The Girl with the Green Eyes premieres in NYC
25 Dec 1914
Legendary Christmas Truce takes place on the battlefields of World War I between British and German troops instead of fighting soldiers exchange gifts play football and sing carols together
25 Dec 1917
Why Marry the first drama to win a Pulitzer Prize premieres in NYC
25 Dec 1938
George Cukor announces Vivien Leigh will play Scarlett OHara in Gone With The Wind
25 Dec 1964
Beatle guitarist George Harrisons girlfriend Pattie Boyd attacked by female Beatle fans
25 Dec 1989
Japanese scientists achieve 271.8C the coldest temperature ever recorded in a laboratory
25 Dec 1995
Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith scores NFL record 25th touchdown of the season in 37-13 win against Arizona Cardinals at Sun Devil Stadium Tempe AZ
25 Dec 2008
Phil Jackson becomes the sixth coach in NBA history to win 1000 games as his LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics 92-83 at the Staples Center Los Angeles
25 Dec 2023
Ncuti Gatwa makes his debut as the fifteenth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who with Millie Gibson as his companion
25 Dec 2024
Azerbaijani airliner crashes near Kazakhstani city of Aktau killing 38 people mistakenly shot down by Russian air defences [1]