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The following events took place on December 24. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 44 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 502

  Chinese emperor Xiao Yan names Xiao Tong his heir designate.
• 640

  Pope John IV is elected.
• 759

  Tang dynasty poet Du Fu departs for Chengdu, where he is hosted by fellow poet Pei Di.
• 1144

  The capital of the crusader County of Edessa falls to Imad ad-Din Zengi, the atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo.
• 1294

  Pope Boniface VIII is elected, replacing St. Celestine V, who had resigned.
• 1500

  A joint Venetian–Spanish fleet captures the Castle of St. George on the island of Cephalonia.
• 1777

  Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.
• 1800

  The Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise fails to kill Napoleon Bonaparte.
• 1814

  The Treaty of Ghent is signed ending the War of 1812.
• 1818

  The first performance of “Silent Night” takes place in the church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.
• 1826

  The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy begins that night, wrapping up the following morning.
• 1851

  Library of Congress burns.
• 1865

  The Ku Klux Klan is formed.
• 1871

  Aida opens in Cairo, Egypt.
• 1906

  Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
• 1911

  Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
• 1913

  The Italian Hall disaster (“1913 Massacre”) in Calumet, Michigan, results in the death of 73 Christmas party goers held by striking mine workers, including 59 children.
• 1914

  World War I: The “Christmas truce” begins.
• 1924

  Albania becomes a republic.
• 1929

  Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.
• 1939

  World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
• 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, Algeria.
• 1943

  World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is named Supreme Allied Commander for the Invasion of Normandy.
• 1951

  Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
• 1953

  Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand’s North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.
• 1955

  NORAD Tracks Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition.
• 1964

  Vietnam War: Viet Cong operatives bomb the Brinks Hotel in Saigon, South Vietnam to demonstrate they can strike an American installation in the heavily guarded capital.
• 1966

  A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
• 1968

  Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures.

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