Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 25

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File:Martin Luther by Cranach-restoration.jpg|Martin Luther

File:Baldwin 1 of Jerusalem.jpg|Coronation of Baldwin I of Jerusalem

File:Charlemagne_coronation.jpg|Coronation of Charlemagne

File:St Mel's Cathedral, Longford (16168208807).jpg|St Mel's Cathedral in 2015

File:Crop-Nicolae Ceaucescu 1978.jpg|Nicolae Ceaușescu

File:Beagle 2 replica.jpg|A Beagle 2 replica

File:Hirohito in dress uniform.jpg|Emperor Hirohito

File:GorbachevMS.jpg|Mikhail Gorbachev

File:National Anthem of Russia (2000), instrumental, one verse.ogg|National anthem of Russia

File:Bayeuxtapestryodowilliamrobert.jpg|William the Conqueror and his brothers

File:Thelnetham Windmill.jpg|Thelnetham Windmill

• AD 36 – After the death of Emperor Gongsun Shu of Chengjia, the empire was conquered by the Eastern Han dynasty.
• 1066 – Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey, but continued to face rebellions over the following years and was not secure on the throne until after 1072.
• 1100 – Baldwin I was crowned the first king of Jerusalem (depicted) in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
• 1758 – Based on predictions by Edmond Halley in 1705, Johann Georg Palitzsch observed a comet that was later named Halley's Comet .
• 1809 – American physician Ephraim McDowell performed the world's first removal of an ovarian tumor.
• 1927 – The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng, a revolutionary socialist political party that sought Vietnamese independence from French colonial rule, was formed in Hanoi.
• 1941 – Second World War: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began when Mark Aitchison Young, the Governor of Hong Kong, surrendered the territory to Japan after 18 days of fierce fighting.
• 1950 – Four Scottish university students removed the Stone of Scone, used in the coronations of Scottish and British monarchs, from Westminster Abbey in London.
• 1968 – In Tamil Nadu, India, families of striking Dalit workers were massacred by a gang, allegedly led by their landlords.
• 1989 – Romanian Revolution: Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena were condemned to death on a wide range of charges and executed.
• 1990 – British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee introduced WorldWideWeb, the world's first web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor.
• 2000 – Russian president Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill officially adopting a new national anthem, with music by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov originally composed for the anthem of the Soviet Union.
• 2007 – A tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escaped from its enclosure and attacked three patrons before it was shot and killed.
• 2009 – Aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear.
• 2016 – A Tupolev Tu-154 of the Russian Defence Ministry crashed into the Black Sea shortly after taking off from Sochi International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.
• Born/died: | Zhang Jingda|d|936| Makan ibn Kaki|d|940| Peter the Venerable|d|1156| Sverker the Elder|d|1156| Lady Grizel Baillie|b|1665| Dorothy Wordsworth|b|1771| Nina E. Allender|b|1873| Otto Frederick Hunziker|b|1873| Young Tom Morris|d|1875| Humphrey Bogart|b|1899| Fatima Massaquoi|b|1912| George Koval|b|1913| Atal Bihari Vajpayee|b|1924| China Machado|b|1929| Sadiq al-Mahdi|b|1935| Justin Trudeau |b|1971| Joan Miró |d|1983| Billy Martin|d|1989| Zail Singh|d|1994| John Pulman|d|1998|

• Richard Reid/2001 shoe bomb plot appears on December 22, so Umar Abdulmutallab/Northwest Airlines Flight 253 should not appear in the same year
• Kiritimati, also known as Christmas Island, appears on December 24, so Christmas Island should not appear in the same year
• Gongsun Shu appears on December 24, so Chenjia should not appear in the same year

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December 25: Christmas (Western Christianity; Gregorian calendar); Hanukkah (Judaism) begins at sunset; Quaid-e-Azam Day in Pakistan

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• 1046 – Henry III was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement II.
• 1724 – Johann Sebastian Bach led the first performance of Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, based on the Christmas hymn written by Martin Luther in 1524.
• 1831 – A Baptist preacher named Samuel Sharpe began an unsuccessful eleven-day slave revolt in Jamaica.
• 1991 – In a nationally televised speech, Mikhail Gorbachev (pictured) resigned as President of the Soviet Union.
• 2009 – A fire destroyed Longford's 19th-century St Mel's Cathedral, considered the "flagship cathedral" of the Irish midlands.

{{Born and died list| Humphrey Bogart|b|1899| Atal Bihari Vajpayee|b|1924| Billy Martin|d|1989| Zail Singh|d|1994|}}

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