December 25th
What Happened on the day you were born on This day in History
1900 U.S.A. Small Pox Epidemic
December 25th , 1900 : In Kentucky a small pox epidemic was raging with hundreds of people stricken. The mortality rate was 20% and health authorities demanded that every person in the state be vaccinated.
1914 France World War I Christmas Truce
December 25th , 1914 : The soldiers of Germany, Russia, France, and Britain call a Christmas truce with soldiers crossing the area of no mans land calling out "Merry Christmas" in their enemies' native tongues.
1926 Japan Emperor Hirohito
December 25th , 1926 : Hirohito becomes the 124th Emperor of Japan, succeeding his father, Emperor Yoshihito.
1927 India Sailors Revolt Over Visiting America
December 25th , 1927 : Sixteen Indian sailors revolted and quit their posts when they heard that their ship was going to America. They were terrified that they would perish to death from the cold. The rebellious sailors were thrown in prison.
1933 North Africa French Pilots
December 25th , 1933 : A long tour of 16,000 miles over North Africa was made by 27 French pilots in the air corps. They returned at Christmas and got a wildly enthusiastic response at home.
1948 Great Britain No Customs For Charity Relief Packages
December 25th , 1948 : An Anglo-American pact signed in London would allow certain gifts to the British from the U.S. to be mailed without customs or freight charges. Charitable organizations sending relief packages to groups or individuals in Britain were exempt from tariffs.
1950 Korea Lonely Christmas
December 25th , 1950 : U.N. soldiers fighting communists in a very cold Korea celebrated Christmas with 42 Catholic priest and double that amount of Protestant ministers. One soldier commented, “This is the loneliest day of the year.”
1952 England Queens Speech
December 25th , 1952 : The young Queen Elizabeth gives her first Christmas broadcast on BBC radio from the study at Sandringham House
1969 Vietnam Casualties
December 25th , 1969 : Reporter William F. Buckley, writing in The Kokomo Tribune, had visited South Vietnam and observed that 80% of the casualties were South Vietnamese and 20% were American troops. He felt that the U.S. was going about the war in the wrong way.
1978 Iran Anti American Feeling
December 25th , 1978 : In a wave of hatred against America and the Shah a Colorado oil individual was attacked by three terrorists with machine guns and killed. In the sacred city of Mashad 9 demonstrators were murdered and 81 wounded.
1989 Soviet Union Glasnost
December 25th , 1989 : In the new atmosphere of glasnost that Mikhail Gorbachev ushered in 70 Soviet children went to 3 American schools in the wealthy Riverdale section of the Bronx.
1989 Romania Ex President Shot By Firing Squad
December 25th , 1989 : Ex Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena have been shot by a firing squad after a secret military tribunal found them both guilty of genocide and other crimes against the state.
1991 Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev Stands Down
December 25th , 1991 : Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union for almost seven years and executive president for nearly two, steps down from office.
1999 Canada Truckers Work Hours
December 25th , 1999 : Statistics Canada made public a study on truckers which observed that one in five truckers worked 60 hours a week. Some truckers manipulated their records and worked over 100 hours a week. New legislation would allow them to work 70 hours a week which is 14 hours a day.
2000 China Fire At Christmas party
December 25th , 2000 : A fire at a Christmas party at an unlicensed disco kills more than 300 people in Luoyang, China
2003 Space Beagle 2 Lost
December 25th , 2003 : Scientists lose contact with the British-built Mars probe, Beagle 2 is less than a meter across and had travelled to the red planet "piggyback" on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter. Nasa successfully landed Spirit rover on Mars in 2004 which did send back astonishing images of the planet's surface.
2006 Somalia War Planes Ethiopia
December 25th , 2006 : Ethiopia supported the UN backed government in Somalia and sent war planes into Somalia to bomb villages that supported the Islamic movement.
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What Happened on the day you were born on This day in History
1974 Australia Cyclone Tracy
December 25th , 1974 : Thousands are left homeless and more than 30 people are feared dead after cyclone Tracy with winds of up to 135mph hits the northern Australian city of Darwin on Christmas Day.
December 25th , 1974 : Thousands are left homeless and more than 30 people are feared dead after cyclone Tracy with winds of up to 135mph hits the northern Australian city of Darwin on Christmas Day.
1900 U.S.A. Small Pox Epidemic
December 25th , 1900 : In Kentucky a small pox epidemic was raging with hundreds of people stricken. The mortality rate was 20% and health authorities demanded that every person in the state be vaccinated.
1914 France World War I Christmas Truce
December 25th , 1914 : The soldiers of Germany, Russia, France, and Britain call a Christmas truce with soldiers crossing the area of no mans land calling out "Merry Christmas" in their enemies' native tongues.
1926 Japan Emperor Hirohito
December 25th , 1926 : Hirohito becomes the 124th Emperor of Japan, succeeding his father, Emperor Yoshihito.
1927 India Sailors Revolt Over Visiting America
December 25th , 1927 : Sixteen Indian sailors revolted and quit their posts when they heard that their ship was going to America. They were terrified that they would perish to death from the cold. The rebellious sailors were thrown in prison.
1933 North Africa French Pilots
December 25th , 1933 : A long tour of 16,000 miles over North Africa was made by 27 French pilots in the air corps. They returned at Christmas and got a wildly enthusiastic response at home.
1948 Great Britain No Customs For Charity Relief Packages
December 25th , 1948 : An Anglo-American pact signed in London would allow certain gifts to the British from the U.S. to be mailed without customs or freight charges. Charitable organizations sending relief packages to groups or individuals in Britain were exempt from tariffs.
1950 Korea Lonely Christmas
December 25th , 1950 : U.N. soldiers fighting communists in a very cold Korea celebrated Christmas with 42 Catholic priest and double that amount of Protestant ministers. One soldier commented, “This is the loneliest day of the year.”
1952 England Queens Speech
December 25th , 1952 : The young Queen Elizabeth gives her first Christmas broadcast on BBC radio from the study at Sandringham House
1969 Vietnam Casualties
December 25th , 1969 : Reporter William F. Buckley, writing in The Kokomo Tribune, had visited South Vietnam and observed that 80% of the casualties were South Vietnamese and 20% were American troops. He felt that the U.S. was going about the war in the wrong way.
1978 Iran Anti American Feeling
December 25th , 1978 : In a wave of hatred against America and the Shah a Colorado oil individual was attacked by three terrorists with machine guns and killed. In the sacred city of Mashad 9 demonstrators were murdered and 81 wounded.
1989 Soviet Union Glasnost
December 25th , 1989 : In the new atmosphere of glasnost that Mikhail Gorbachev ushered in 70 Soviet children went to 3 American schools in the wealthy Riverdale section of the Bronx.
1989 Romania Ex President Shot By Firing Squad
December 25th , 1989 : Ex Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena have been shot by a firing squad after a secret military tribunal found them both guilty of genocide and other crimes against the state.
1991 Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev Stands Down
December 25th , 1991 : Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union for almost seven years and executive president for nearly two, steps down from office.
1999 Canada Truckers Work Hours
December 25th , 1999 : Statistics Canada made public a study on truckers which observed that one in five truckers worked 60 hours a week. Some truckers manipulated their records and worked over 100 hours a week. New legislation would allow them to work 70 hours a week which is 14 hours a day.
2000 China Fire At Christmas party
December 25th , 2000 : A fire at a Christmas party at an unlicensed disco kills more than 300 people in Luoyang, China
2003 Space Beagle 2 Lost
December 25th , 2003 : Scientists lose contact with the British-built Mars probe, Beagle 2 is less than a meter across and had travelled to the red planet "piggyback" on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter. Nasa successfully landed Spirit rover on Mars in 2004 which did send back astonishing images of the planet's surface.
2006 Somalia War Planes Ethiopia
December 25th , 2006 : Ethiopia supported the UN backed government in Somalia and sent war planes into Somalia to bomb villages that supported the Islamic movement.
