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1 - 25 of 25 Interesting & Fun 25th of December Facts: |
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| 1066 - Coronation of William the Conqueror as king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London. |
| 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. |
| 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 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 Hokkaido. |
| 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. |
| 1926 - Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan, succeeding the Taisho Emperor. |
| 1932 - A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills ~70,000 people. |
| 1939 - Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is read on the radio for the first time (CBS radio). |
| 1939 - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is introduced by Montgomery Ward stores. |
| 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. |
| 1971 - In the longest game in NFL history (82m40s), the Miami Dolphins defeat the Kansas City Chiefs. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). |
| 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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