Events
640 -
John IV becomes
Pope.1294 -
Pope Boniface VIII is elected
Pope, replacing
St. Celestine V, who had
abdicated.1515 -
Thomas Wolsey is named the English
Lord Chancellor.
1777 -
Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, was discovered by
James Cook.
1800 - Assassination attempt on
Napoleon Bonaparte's life.
1814 - The
Treaty of Ghent was signed which ended the
War of 1812.
1818 - "
Silent Night" composed by
Franz Xaver Gruber and
Josef Mohr.
1851 -
Library of Congress burns.
1865 - Several US Civil War
Confederate veterans form the
Ku Klux Klan.
1888 -
Vincent Van Gogh cuts off his ear during some sort of
seizure.
1906 -
Radio:
Reginald Fessenden transmitted the first radio broadcast. The first program, consisted of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
1914 -
World War I: The "
Christmas truce" begins.
1924 -
Albania becomes a republic.
1929 - Assassination attempt of Argentine President
Hipólito Yrigoyen.
1939 -
World War II:
Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
1941 - World War II:
Hong Kong falls to the
Japanese Imperial Army. 1941 - World War II:
Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.
1942 - World War II: French monarchist,
Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates
Vichy French Admiral
François Darlan in
Algiers 1943 - World War II: U.S. General
Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the
Supreme Allied Commander.
1946 -
France's Fourth Republic founded.
1951 -
Libya becomes independent from
Italy.
Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
1953 -
Tangiwai disaster: A railway bridge collapse at
Tangiwai,
New Zealand sends a fully loaded passenger train into the
Whangaehu River, killing 153 people.1953 -
NBC's
Dragnet becomes the first network-sponsored
television program.
1954 -
Laos becomes independent.
1966 - A
Canadair CL-44 chartered by the
United States military crashes into a small village in
South Vietnam, killing 129.
1968 - The crew of the
USS Pueblo is released by
North Korea after being held for 11 months on suspicion of
spying.1968 -
Apollo Program: The crew of
Apollo 8 enter into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed 10 lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures that became the famous
Christmas Eve Broadcast, one of the most watched programs in history.
1974 -
Cyclone Tracy devastates
Darwin, Australia.
1979 - The
Soviet Union invades Afghanistan to support the country's Marxist government.1979 - The first European
Ariane rocket is launched.
1987 -
Japanese legendary
rock band BOØWY declares their breakup at the
Shibuya Kokaido.
1997 - The
Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in
Algeria kills 50-100 people.1997 - The
Dominican Republic becomes a member of the
Berne Convention copyright treaty.
2000 - The
Texas 7 holds up a sports store in
Irving, Texas. Police officer
Aubrey Hawkins is shot during the robbery.
2002 - The
New Delhi Metro opens.
2003 - The
Spanish police thwart an attempt by
ETA to detonate 50 kg of
explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside
Madrid's busy
Chamartín Station.
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