Editing December 25 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[AD 36|36]] &ndash; Forces of [[Emperor Guangwu]] of the [[Eastern Han]], under the command of [[Wu Han (Han dynasty)|Wu Han]], conquer the separatist [[Chengjia]] empire, reuniting China.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Twitchett |first1=Denis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A2HKxK5N2sAC&pg=PA255 |title=The Cambridge History of China: Volume 1, The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 BC – AD 220 |last2=Fairbank |first2=John King |last3=Loewe |first3=Michael |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1978 |isbn=978-0-521-24327-8 |page=255}}</ref>
* [[274]] &ndash; A [[Temple of the Sun (Rome)|temple]] to [[Sol Invictus]] is dedicated in [[Ancient Rome|Rome]] by Emperor [[Aurelian]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Clauss |first=Manfred |title=Die römischen Kaiser - 55 historische Portraits von Caesar bis Iustinian |publisher=C.H.Beck |year=2001 |isbn=978-3-406-47288-6 |page=250}}</ref>
* [[333]] &ndash; Roman Emperor [[Constantine the Great]] elevates his youngest son [[Constans]] to the rank of ''[[Caesar (title)|Caesar]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Jones |first1=A.H.M. |url={{googlebooks|uOHw4idqAeYC|plainurl=y}} |title=The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire Volume 1: A.D. 260–395 |last2=J.R. Martindale |last3=J. Morris |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1971 |isbn=0-521-07233-6 |page=220 |author-link=A. H. M. Jones |author-link2=John Robert Martindale |author-link3=John Morris (historian) |name-list-style=amp}}</ref>
* [[336]] &ndash; First documentary sign of [[Christmas]] celebration in Rome.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2002 |title=Christmas and its cycle |encyclopedia=New Catholic Encyclopedia |publisher=Catholic University of America Press |edition=2nd |volume=3 |pages=551}}</ref>
* [[350]] &ndash; [[Vetranio]] meets [[Constantius II]] at [[Niš|Naissus]] ([[Serbia]]) and is forced to abdicate his imperial title. Constantius allows him to live as a private citizen on a state pension.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Syvanne |first=Ikka |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P6SgCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA323 |title=Military History of Late Rome |publisher=Pen and Sword |year=2015 |isbn=9781848848559 |page=323}}</ref>
* [[508]] &ndash; [[Clovis I]], king of the [[Franks]], is [[Baptism|baptized]] into the [[Catholicism|Catholic]] faith at [[Reims]], by [[Saint Remigius]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Danuta |first=Shanzer |date=March 1998 |title=Dating the baptism of Clovis: the bishop of Vienne vs the bishop of Tours |journal=Early Medieval Europe |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=29–57 |doi=10.1111/1468-0254.00017 |s2cid=161819012}}</ref>
* [[597]] &ndash; [[Augustine of Canterbury]] and his fellow-labourers baptise in [[Kingdom of Kent|Kent]] more than 10,000 [[Anglo-Saxons]].
* [[800]] &ndash; The coronation of [[Charlemagne]] as [[Holy Roman Emperor]], in Rome.<ref>{{Cite CE1913|wstitle=Charlemagne|author=Thomas Joseph Shahan & Ewan Macpherson}}</ref>
* [[820]] &ndash; Eastern Emperor [[Leo V the Armenian|Leo V]] is murdered in a [[Church of the Virgin of the Pharos|church]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lidov |first=Alexei |url=https://brill.com/view/title/21422 |title=Jerusalem as Narrative Space / Erzählraum Jerusalem |date=2012-10-19 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-22625-8 |editor-last=Hoffmann |editor-first=Annette |series=Visualising the Middle Ages |volume=6 |location=Leiden-Boston |page=66 |chapter=A Byzantine Jerusalem. The Imperial Pharos Chapel as the Holy Sepulchre |author-link=Alexei Lidov |editor-last2=Wolf |editor-first2=Gerhard |chapter-url=http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/3595/1/Lidov_A_Byzantine_Jerusalem_The_Imperial_Pharos_Chapel_2012.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170115175252/http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/3595/1/Lidov_A_Byzantine_Jerusalem_The_Imperial_Pharos_Chapel_2012.pdf |archive-date=2017-01-15 |url-status=live |name-list-style=amp}}</ref> of the [[Great Palace of Constantinople|Great Palace]] of [[Constantinople]] by followers of [[Michael II]].<ref>{{Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium|page=1210}}</ref>  
*[[AD 1000|1000]] &ndash; The foundation of the [[Kingdom of Hungary]]: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by [[Stephen I of Hungary]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Engel |first=Pál |title=The Realm of St Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895–1526 |publisher=I.B. Tauris Publishers |year=2001 |isbn=978-1-86064-061-2 |page=27 |author-link=Pál Engel}}</ref>
*[[1013]] &ndash; [[Sweyn Forkbeard]] takes control of the [[Danelaw]] and is proclaimed king of [[Kingdom of England|England]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=James |first=Panton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BiyyueBTpaMC&pg=PA470 |title=Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy |publisher=Scarecrow Press |year=2011 |isbn=9780810874978 |page=470}}</ref>
*[[1025]] &ndash; Coronation of [[Mieszko II Lambert]] as king of Poland.
*[[1046]] &ndash; [[Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor|Henry III]] is crowned [[Holy Roman Emperor]] by [[Pope Clement II]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Clement II |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04017a.htm |website=www.newadvent.org |quote=He was enthroned in St. Peter's on Christmas Day and took the name of Clement II. .... His first pontifical act was to place the imperial crown upon his benefactor and the queen-consort, Agnes of Aquitaine. The new emperor received from the Romans and the pope the title and diadem of a Roman Patricius...}}</ref>
*[[1066]] &ndash; [[William the Conqueror]], [[Duke of Normandy]] is [[Coronation of William I|crowned king of England]], at [[Westminster Abbey]], [[London]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sanders |first=Kevin |date=22 December 2016 |title=How William the Conqueror spent Christmas in 1066 |url=http://blog.english-heritage.org.uk/how-william-the-conqueror-spent-christmas-in-1066/ |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=English Heritage Blog}}</ref>
*[[1076]] &ndash; Coronation of [[Bolesław II the Generous]] as king of Poland.
*[[1100]] &ndash; [[Baldwin I of Jerusalem|Baldwin of Boulogne]] is crowned the first [[King of Jerusalem]] in the [[Church of the Nativity]] in [[Bethlehem]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Murray |first=Alan V. |title=The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Dynastic History, 1099–1125 |publisher=Prosopographica et Geneologica |year=2000 |isbn=978-1-9009-3403-9 |page=96}}</ref>
*[[1130]] &ndash; Count [[Roger II of Sicily]] is crowned the first king of [[Kingdom of Sicily|Sicily]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Roger II {{!}} Facts & Biography |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roger-II |access-date=14 July 2020 |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1261]] &ndash; Eleven-year-old [[John IV Laskaris]] of the restored [[Byzantine Empire|Eastern Roman Empire]] is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler [[Michael VIII Palaiologos]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Korobeinikov |first=Dimitri |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CCXRCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA237 |title=Byzantium and the Turks in the Thirteenth Century |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2014 |isbn=9780191017940 |page=237}}</ref>
*[[1492]] &ndash; The [[carrack]] ''[[Santa María (ship)|Santa María]]'', commanded by [[Christopher Columbus]], runs onto a [[reef]] off [[Haiti]] due to an improper [[Watch system|watch]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Columbus |first1=Christopher |url=https://archive.org/details/cihm_05312/page/133/ |title=''The life of Christopher Columbus, from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time'' |last2=Hale |first2=Edward Everett |publisher=G.L. Howe & Co. |year=1891 |isbn=9780665053122 |location=Chicago |page=133 |author-link=Christopher Columbus |author-link2=Edward Everett Hale}}</ref>
*[[1553]] &ndash; [[Battle of Tucapel]]: [[Mapuche]] rebels under [[Lautaro]] defeat the Spanish [[conquistador]]s and executes the governor of [[Chile]], [[Pedro de Valdivia]].
*[[1559]] &ndash; [[Pope Pius IV]] is [[1559 papal conclave|elected]], four months after his predecessor's death.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Pius IV |encyclopedia=Britannica Online |date=5 December 2023 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pius-IV}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1724]] &ndash; [[Johann Sebastian Bach|J. S. Bach]] leads the first performance of [[Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91|''Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ'', BWV 91]], in [[Leipzig]], based on Luther's 1524 [[Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ|Christmas hymn]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000115?lang=en|title=Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ [later version] BWV 91.2; BWV 91; BC A 9b|website=[[Bach Digital]]|year=2024|access-date=2024-12-13}}</ref>
*[[1758]] &ndash; [[Halley's Comet]] is sighted by [[Johann Georg Palitzsch]], confirming [[Edmund Halley]]'s prediction of its passage.  This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Messier's "Notes on my comets" |url=http://www.messier.seds.org/xtra/history/notes-c.html |quote=It was discovered, [...] at Aprohlis, near Dresden, by a farmer named Palitzsch, on the 25th of December 1758[...]}}</ref>
*[[1766]] &ndash; [[Mapuche]]s in [[Colonial Chile|Chile]] launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the [[Mapuche uprising of 1766]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barros Arana |first=Diego |url=http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-9008.html |title=Historia General de Chile |publisher=[[Editorial Universitaria]] |year=2000 |edition=2 |volume=VI |location=Santiago, Chile |page=235 |language=es |author-link=Diego Barros Arana |orig-year=1886}}</ref>
*[[1776]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: General [[George Washington]] and the [[Continental Army]] [[George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River|cross the Delaware River]] at night to [[Battle of Trenton|attack]] [[Hessian (soldier)|Hessian]] forces serving [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] at [[Trenton, New Jersey]], the next day.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Washington Crossing Historic Park |url=http://www.ushistory.org/washingtoncrossing/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100330060254/http://www.ushistory.org/washingtoncrossing/ |archive-date=2010-03-30 |access-date=2010-01-27 |publisher=Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission}}</ref>
*[[1793]] &ndash; [[Northwest Indian War]]: General [[Anthony Wayne|"Mad Anthony" Wayne]] and a [[Legion of the United States|300 man detachment]] identify the site of [[St. Clair's defeat|St. Clair's 1791 defeat]] by the large number of unburied human remains at modern [[Fort Recovery, Ohio]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=31 January 2021 |title=Corps of Discovery. United States Army. |url=https://history.army.mil/LC/The%20People/Frontier.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170102142456/http://www.history.army.mil/LC/The%20People/Frontier.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 2, 2017 |access-date=2 July 2021 |website=U.S. Army Center of Military History}}</ref>
*[[1809]] &ndash; Dr. [[Ephraim McDowell]] performs the first [[ovariotomy]], removing a 22-pound [[Neoplasm|tumor]].<ref name="PMID30670290">{{Cite journal |last=Cirocco |first=WC |date=March 2019 |title=The Christmas miracle of 1809: How a "backwoodsman without a diploma to practice" became the father of abdominal surgery. |url=https://www.americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S0002-9610(18)31710-0/fulltext |journal=American Journal of Surgery |volume=217 |issue=3 |pages=578–589 |doi=10.1016/j.amjsurg.2019.01.003 |pmid=30670290 |s2cid=58947639 |access-date=23 December 2020}}</ref>
*[[1814]] &ndash; Rev. [[Samuel Marsden]] holds the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at [[Rangihoua Bay]].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Story: Missions and missionaries |encyclopedia=Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/missions-and-missionaries/page-2 |access-date=6 September 2021}}</ref>
*[[1815]] &ndash; The [[Handel and Haydn Society]], oldest continually performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance.
*[[1826]] &ndash; The [[Eggnog Riot]] at the [[United States Military Academy]] concludes after beginning the previous evening.
*[[1831]] &ndash; The [[Baptist War|Great Jamaican Slave Revolt]] begins; up to 20% of [[Jamaica]]'s slaves mobilize in an ultimately unsuccessful fight for freedom.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Turner |first=Mary |title=Slaves and Missionaries |date=1998 |publisher=Press University of the West Indies |isbn=9789766400453 |page=154}}</ref>
*[[1837]] &ndash; [[Second Seminole War]]: American general [[Zachary Taylor]] leads 1,100 troops against the [[Seminole]]s at the [[Battle of Lake Okeechobee]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Katz |first=William Loren |title=Resistance To US Occupation, Florida, 1837 |url=http://www.williamlkatz.com/Essays/CurrentEvents/FloridaResistance.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026144304/http://www.williamlkatz.com/Essays/CurrentEvents/FloridaResistance.php |archive-date=26 October 2007 |access-date=September 6, 2021}}</ref>
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[Pardons for ex-Confederates]]: United States President [[Andrew Johnson]] grants an unconditional [[pardon]] to all [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] veterans.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Randall |first1=J. G.|title=The Civil War and Reconstruction |last2=Donald |first2=David |date=1966 |publisher=D.C. Heath and Company |edition=2nd |pages=560{{hyphen}}561}}</ref>
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[Wagner]]'s ''[[Siegfried Idyll]]'' is first performed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://francisbarnhart.com/projects/siegfried-idyll/|url-status=dead|title=The Siegfried Idyll: Jewel of the Wagner Romance|first=Francis|last=Barnhart|website=francisbarnhart.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211050734/http://francisbarnhart.com/projects/siegfried-idyll/|archive-date=2007-12-11|accessdate=2024-12-20|via=Wayback Machine}}</ref>

===1901–present===
*[[1914]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: A [[Christmas truce|series of unofficial truces]] occur across the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] to celebrate [[Christmas]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ashworth |first=Tony |title=Trench Warfare 1914–1918: The Live-and-Let-Live System |publisher=Pan |year=2000 |isbn=0330480685 |location=London}}</ref>
*[[1915]] &ndash; The [[National Protection War]] breaks out against the [[Empire of China (1915–1916)|Empire of China]], as military leaders [[Cai E]] and [[Tang Jiyao]] proclaim the independence of [[Yunnan]] and begin a campaign to restore the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ke-wen Wang |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j5irhLHE6gUC&q=tang+jiyao&pg=PA230 |title=Modern China: an encyclopedia of history, culture, and nationalism |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=1998 |isbn=0-8153-0720-9 |page=230 |access-date=2010-10-31}}</ref>
*[[1927]] &ndash; [[Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar|B. R. Ambedkar]] and his followers burn copies of the [[Manusmriti]] in [[Mahad]], [[Maharashtra]], to protest its treatment of [[Dalit]] people.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sofia Babu |year=2020 |title=25th December 1927, Manusmriti Dahan Divas: A historical day to remember |url=https://english.madhyamam.com/india/25th-december-1927-manusmriti-dahan-divas-a-historical-day-to-remember-624232 |access-date=14 December 2021}}</ref>
*[[1932]] &ndash; A [[1932 Changma earthquake|magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China]] kills 275 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/3507|title=Significant Earthquake Information|last=National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS): NCEI/WDS Global Significant Earthquake Database. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information|year=1972 |publisher=NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information|doi=10.7289/V5TD9V7K}}</ref>
*[[1941]] &ndash; Admiral [[Chester W. Nimitz]], appointed commander of the [[United States Pacific Fleet|U.S. Pacific Fleet]] on December 17,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hoyt |first=Edwin P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z1JBBAAAQBAJ |title=How They Won the War in the Pacific: Nimitz and His Admirals |date=2012 |publisher=Lyons Press |isbn=9780762772858 |location=Guilford, Conn. |page=25}}</ref> arrives at Pearl Harbor.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Weintraub |first=Stanley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bgABAwAAQBAJ |title=Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941 |date=2011 |publisher=Da Capo Press |isbn=9780306820618 |location=Cambridge, Mass. |page=99}}</ref>
*  1941   &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Battle of Hong Kong]] ends, beginning the [[Japanese occupation of Hong Kong]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 December 2008 |title=Hong Kong's "Black Christmas" |work=China Daily |url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2008-12/08/content_7279606.htm |access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref>
*  1941   &ndash; Admiral [[Émile Muselier]] seizes the archipelago of [[Saint Pierre and Miquelon]], which become the first part of France to be liberated by the [[Free French Forces]].<ref>{{Cite journal |title=University of New Brunswick {{!}} UNB Canadian Military Planning and the St. Pierre and Miquelon Affair, 1940 |journal=Acadiensis |date=9 September 2003 |pages=47 |url=https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/acadiensis/article/view/10684/11369 |last1=Auger |first1=Martin F. }}</ref>
*[[1946]] &ndash; The first European self-sustaining [[nuclear chain reaction]] is initiated within the [[Soviet Union]]'s [[F-1 (nuclear reactor)|F-1 nuclear reactor]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The World's Oldest Operating Reactor: The Russian F-1 |url=http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/Russreac.html |access-date=7 September 2021 |website=The Nuclear Weapon Archive}}</ref>
*[[1950]] &ndash; The [[Stone of Scone]], traditional coronation stone of [[British Monarch|British monarchs]], [[Removal of the Stone of Scone in 1950|is taken from Westminster Abbey]] by [[Scottish nationalism|Scottish nationalist]] students. It later turns up in Scotland on [[April 11]], 1951.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 March 2004 |title=Defining our destiny |work=The Scotsman |url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/defining-our-destiny-1-519098 |url-status=dead |access-date=7 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227073141/http://www.scotsman.com/news/defining-our-destiny-1-519098 |archive-date=27 December 2013}}</ref>
*[[1951]] &ndash; A bomb [[Murder of Harry and Harriette Moore|explodes]] at the home of [[Harry T. Moore]] and [[Harriette Moore|Harriette V. S. Moore]], early leaders of the [[Civil Rights Movement]], killing Harry instantly and fatally wounding Harriette.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Crist |first=Charlie |date=2006-08-16 |title=The Christmas 1951 Murders of Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore; Results of the Attorney General's Investigation: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY |url=https://www.nbbd.com/godo/moore/investigation/0608MooreExecSum.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061113223626/http://www.nbbd.com/godo/moore/investigation/0608MooreExecSum.pdf |archive-date=2006-11-13 |access-date=2018-02-27}}</ref>
*[[1962]] &ndash; The [[Soviet Union]] conducts its final above-ground [[1962 Soviet nuclear tests|nuclear weapon test]], in anticipation of the 1963 [[Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty]].
*[[1963]] &ndash; Turkish Cypriot [[Bayrak]] Radio begins transmitting in [[Cyprus]] after [[Turkish Cypriots]] are forcibly excluded from [[Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation]].
*[[1968]] &ndash; [[Apollo program]]: ''[[Apollo 8]]'' performs the first successful [[Trans-Earth injection]] (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to [[Earth]] from [[Lunar orbit]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Orloff |first=Richard W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U1QgAAAAIAAJ |title=Apollo by the Numbers |date=2000 |publisher=[[NASA|National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] |isbn=9780160506314 |page=39}}</ref>
*  1968   &ndash; [[Kilvenmani massacre]]: Forty-four [[Dalit]]s (untouchables) are burnt to death in [[Kizhavenmani]] village, Tamil Nadu, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Manikandan |first=M |date=24 December 2017 |title=Fire of 1968 still burning inside |work=The New Indian Express |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2017/dec/24/fire-of-1968-still-burning-inside-1735689.html |access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref>
*[[1976]] &ndash; [[EgyptAir Flight 864]], a [[Boeing 707|Boeing 707-366C]], crashes on approach to [[Don Mueang International Airport]], killing 71 people.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 707-366C SU-AXA Bangkok-Don Muang International Airport (BKK) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19761225-0 |access-date=2019-12-23 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1977]] &ndash; Israeli Prime Minister [[Menachem Begin]] meets in Egypt with its president [[Anwar Sadat]].
*[[1986]] &ndash; [[Iraqi Airways Flight 163]], a [[Boeing 737|Boeing 737-270C]], is hijacked and crashes in [[Arar, Saudi Arabia]], killing 63 people.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-270C YI-AGJ Arar |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19861225-1 |access-date=2020-10-25 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=Aviation Safety Network}}</ref>
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[Romanian Revolution]]: Deposed [[President of Romania]] [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]] and his wife, [[Elena Ceaușescu|Elena]], are condemned to death and executed after a [[Trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu|summary trial]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Boyes |first=Roger |date=24 December 2009 |title=Ceausescu looked in my eyes and he knew that he was going to die |work=The Times |location=London |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6967099.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604155855/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6967099.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 4, 2011 |url-access=subscription |access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref>
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] resigns as [[President of the Soviet Union]] (the union itself is [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union|dissolved]] the next day). Ukraine's [[1991 Ukrainian independence referendum|referendum]] is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Taubman |first=William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iNDADQAAQBAJ |title=Gorbachev: His Life and Times |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2017 |isbn=978-1471147968 |location=New York City |page=638}}</ref>
* [[1996]] &ndash; The body of American child beauty queen [[Killing of JonBenét Ramsey|JonBenét Ramsey was found]] in her family's Boulder, Colorado, home. Her murder remains unsolved.<ref name=AutopsyReport>{{cite web | url=https://www.denverpost.com/1996/08/13/text-of-jonbenet-autopsy-report/ | title=Text of JonBenét autopsy report | date=December 27, 1996 | publisher=Office of the Boulder County Coroner | access-date=September 9, 2021 | archive-date=October 23, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023182740/https://www.denverpost.com/1996/08/13/text-of-jonbenet-autopsy-report/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1999]] &ndash; [[Cubana de Aviación Flight 310]], a [[Yakovlev Yak-42]], crashes near [[Bejuma]], [[Carabobo State]], Venezuela, killing 22 people.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Yakovlev Yak-42D CU-T1285 Bejuma |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19991225-1 |access-date=2020-12-24 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=Aviation Safety Network}}</ref>
*[[2003]] &ndash; [[UTA Flight 141]], a [[Boeing 727|Boeing 727-223]], crashes at the [[Cotonou Airport]] in [[Benin]], killing 141 people.<ref name="Frenchrep">{{Cite web |title=Final report Accident on 25 December 2003 at Cotonou Cadjèhoun aerodrome (Benin) to the Boeing 727-223 registered 3X-GDO operated by UTA (Union des Transports Africains) |url=http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2003/3x-o031225a/pdf/3x-o031225a.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721063823/http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2003/3x-o031225a/pdf/3x-o031225a.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-21 |access-date=7 September 2021 |website=www.bea.aero |publisher=[[Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile]]}}</ref>
*  2003   &ndash; The ill-fated ''[[Beagle 2]]'' probe, released from the [[Mars Express]] spacecraft on [[December 19]], stops transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing.<ref name="theguardian.com">{{Cite news |last=Clark |first=Stuart |date=17 January 2015 |title=Beagle 2 spacecraft found intact on surface of Mars after 11 years |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/16/lost-beagle-2-spacecraft-found-mars |access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref>
*[[2004]] &ndash; The [[Cassini Orbiter|''Cassini'' orbiter]] releases [[Huygens (spacecraft)|''Huygens'' probe]] which successfully landed on [[Saturn]]'s moon [[Titan (moon)|Titan]] on January 14, 2005.
*[[2012]] &ndash; An [[Antonov An-72]] plane [[2012 Kazakhstan Antonov An-72 crash|crashes]] close to the city of [[Shymkent]], killing 27 people.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Accident description |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20121225-1 |access-date=7 September 2021 |publisher=Aviation Safety Network}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=26 December 2012 |title=Kazakhstan military plane crash 'kills 27' near Shymkent |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20842116 |access-date=7 September 2021 |publisher=BBC News}}</ref> 
*  2012   &ndash; [[Air Bagan Flight 011]], a [[Fokker 100]], crashes on approach to [[Heho Airport]] in [[Heho]], [[Myanmar]], killing two people.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Fokker 100 XY-AGC Heho Airport (HEH) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20121225-0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227225233/http://aviation-safety.net:80/database/record.php?id=20121225-0 |archive-date=2012-12-27 |access-date=2021-12-22 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=Aviation Safety Network}}</ref> 
*[[2016]] &ndash; A [[Ministry of Defence (Russia)|Russian Defence Ministry]] [[Tupolev Tu-154]] carrying members of the [[Alexandrov Ensemble]] [[2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash|crashes]] into the [[Black Sea]] shortly after takeoff, killing all 92 people on board.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Accident description |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20161225-0 |access-date=7 September 2021 |publisher=Aviation Safety Network}}</ref>
*[[2019]] &ndash; Twenty people are killed and thousands are left homeless by [[Typhoon Phanfone (2019)|Typhoon Phanfone]] in the [[Philippines]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jim Gomez |date=Dec 26, 2019 |title=Christmas Typhoon Leaves 20 Dead In Philippines |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/christmas-typhoon-leaves-20-dead-in-philippines_n_5e04af58e4b0843d3603b4bf |website=HuffPost}}</ref>
*[[2020]] &ndash; An [[2020 Nashville bombing|explosion in Nashville, Tennessee]], occurs, leaving three civilians in the hospital.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Police believe RV explosion on Second Avenue North 'an intentional act' |url=https://www.wsmv.com/news/police-believe-rv-explosion-on-second-avenue-north-an-intentional-act/article_c2c94818-46b2-11eb-acf2-23716d723233.html?block_id=998328 |access-date=December 25, 2020}}</ref>
*[[2021]] &ndash; The [[James Webb Space Telescope]] is [[Ariane flight VA256|launched]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ariane Flight VA256 - Arianespace |url=https://www.arianespace.com/mission/ariane-flight-va256/ |access-date=26 December 2021 |website=[[Arianespace]]}}</ref>
*[[2024]] &ndash; [[Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243]] crashes in [[Aktau]], [[Kazakhstan]], killing 38 of its occupants.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashes near Kazakhstan's Aktau airport |url=https://news.sky.com/story/azerbaijan-airlines-crashes-near-kazakhstans-aktau-airport-13279720 |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=Sky News |language=en}}</ref>
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