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25 December, 2004
Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturns moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
25 December, 2003
The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe which was released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing.
25 December, 1991
Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraines referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
25 December, 1989
Nicolae Ceausescu, former communist dictator of Romania, and his wife Elena are condemned to death and executed under a wide range of charges.
25 December, 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.
25 December, 1979
The Soviet Union airlifts forces into Afghanistan to begin its costly occupation.
25 December, 1977
Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with President of Egypt Anwar Sadat.
25 December, 1974
Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia.
25 December, 1974
Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.
25 December, 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.
25 December, 1971
In the longest game in NFL history (82m40s of game time), the Miami Dolphins defeat the Kansas City Chiefs at Kansas City Municipal Stadium 27-24.
25 December, 1968
Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans Earth Injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
25 December, 1965
The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist Peoples Organisation is founded in Taiz
25 December, 1963
Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio began transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots were forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
25 December, 1950
The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.
25 December, 1947
The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect.
25 December, 1941
Admiral Chester W Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
25 December, 1941
World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong.
25 December, 1932
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills ~70,000 people.
25 December, 1926
Emperor Taisho of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Showa.
25 December, 1917
Why Marry?, first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City.
25 December, 1914
World War I: Known as the Christmas truce, German and British troops on the Western Front temporarily cease fire.
25 December, 1868
U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
25 December, 1868
Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaido.
25 December, 1837
Battle of Lake Okeechobee: United States forces defeat Seminole Indians.
25 December, 1818
The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.
25 December, 1776
George Washington and his army cross the Delaware River to attack the Kingdom of Great Britains Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey.
25 December, 1650
Thomas Cooper, former Usher of Greshams School, England, hanged as a Royalist rebel.
25 December, 1643
Christmas Island founded and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Ship Company vessel, the Royal Mary.
25 December, 1599
The city of Natal, Brazil is founded.
25 December, 1261
John IV Lascaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaeologus.
25 December, 1223
St. Francis of Assisi assembles the first Nativity scene.
25 December, 1130
Roger II of Sicily is crowned as the first King of Sicily
25 December, 1100
Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned as the first King of Jerusalem
25 December, 1066
Coronation of William the Conqueror as king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.
25 December, 1000
The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
25 December, 800
Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.

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