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24th of December 0563 EVENT The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by earthquakes.
24th of December 1294 EVENT Pope Boniface VIII is elected Pope, replacing St. Celestine V, who had resigned.
24th of December 1777 EVENT Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.
24th of December 1814 EVENT The Treaty of Ghent is signed ending the War of 1812.
24th of December 1826 EVENT The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy begins that night, wrapping up the following morning.
24th of December 1851 EVENT Library of Congress burns.
24th of December 1865 EVENT The Ku Klux Klan is formed.
24th of December 1906 EVENT Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
24th of December 1914 EVENT World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins.
24th of December 1924 EVENT Albania becomes a republic.
24th of December 1929 EVENT Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipolito Yrigoyen.
24th of December 1939 EVENT World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
24th of December 1941 EVENT World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.
24th of December 1942 EVENT World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral Francois Darlan in Algiers.
24th of December 1943 EVENT World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander.
24th of December 1951 EVENT Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
24th of December 1953 EVENT Tangiwai disaster: A railway bridge is destroyed by a lahar at Tangiwai, in the Central North Island of New Zealand, sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River, and killing 153 people.
24th of December 1955 EVENT NORAD Tracks Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition.
24th of December 1966 EVENT A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
24th of December 1968 EVENT The crew of the USS Pueblo is released by North Korea after being held for 11 months on suspicion of spying.
24th of December 1968 EVENT Apollo Program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed 10 lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures that became the famous Christmas Eve Broadcast, one of the most watched programs in history.
24th of December 1973 EVENT District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government.
24th of December 1974 EVENT Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia.
24th of December 1979 EVENT The first European Ariane rocket is launched.
24th of December 1980 EVENT Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, an incident called "Britain's Roswell".
24th of December 1997 EVENT The Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.
24th of December 2000 EVENT The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is murdered during the robbery.
24th of December 2003 EVENT The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartin Station.
24th of December 2008 EVENT Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks on Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400.
24th of December 1166 BIRTHDAY King John of England (d. 1216)
24th of December 1389 BIRTHDAY John VI, Duke of Brittany (d. 1442)
24th of December 1475 BIRTHDAY Thomas Murner, German writer (d. c. 1537)
24th of December 1508 BIRTHDAY Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (d. 1567)
24th of December 1588 BIRTHDAY Constance of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1631)
24th of December 1609 BIRTHDAY Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (d. 1683)
24th of December 1635 BIRTHDAY Mariana of Austria, second wife of king Philip IV of Spain (d. 1696)
24th of December 1698 BIRTHDAY William Warburton, English Bishop of Gloucester (d. 1779)
24th of December 1724 BIRTHDAY Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (d. 1811)
24th of December 1745 BIRTHDAY Benjamin Rush, doctor and Founding Father of the United States (d. 1813)
24th of December 1754 BIRTHDAY George Crabbe, British poet and naturalist (d. 1832)
24th of December 1761 BIRTHDAY Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (d. 1831)
24th of December 1784 BIRTHDAY Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1803)
24th of December 1798 BIRTHDAY Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (d. 1855)
24th of December 1809 BIRTHDAY Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868)
24th of December 1810 BIRTHDAY Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (d. 1873)
24th of December 1812 BIRTHDAY Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (d. 1894)
24th of December 1818 BIRTHDAY James Prescott Joule, British physicist (d. 1889)
24th of December 1822 BIRTHDAY Matthew Arnold, British poet (d. 1888)
24th of December 1837 BIRTHDAY Elisabeth of Bavaria, also known as Sissi, Empress of Austria (d. 1898)
24th of December 1843 BIRTHDAY Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (d. 1886)
24th of December 1845 BIRTHDAY King George I of Greece (d. 1913)
24th of December 1867 BIRTHDAY Kantaro Suzuki, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
24th of December 1868 BIRTHDAY Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (d. 1941)
24th of December 1877 BIRTHDAY Sigrid Schauman, Finnish painter (d. 1979)
24th of December 1879 BIRTHDAY Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, Queen Consort to Christian X (d. 1952)
24th of December 1879 BIRTHDAY Emile Nelligan, Quebec poet (d. 1941)
24th of December 1880 BIRTHDAY Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist, children's book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann (d. 1939)
24th of December 1881 BIRTHDAY Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
24th of December 1886 BIRTHDAY Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director (d. 1962)
24th of December 1887 BIRTHDAY Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer (d. 1951)
24th of December 1893 BIRTHDAY Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (Chattanooga Choo Choo : I Only Have Eyes for You) (d. 1981)
24th of December 1893 BIRTHDAY Ruth Chatterton, American actress (d. 1961)
24th of December 1894 BIRTHDAY Georges Guynemer, French aviator (d. 1917)
24th of December 1895 BIRTHDAY E. Roland Harriman, American financier (d. 1978)
24th of December 1896 BIRTHDAY Jens Oliver Lisberg, Faroese law student, designer of the Flag of the Faroe Islands (d. 1920)
24th of December 1898 BIRTHDAY Hector Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1967)
24th of December 1898 BIRTHDAY Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (d. 1959)
24th of December 1900 BIRTHDAY Joey Smallwood, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland (d. 1991)
24th of December 1903 BIRTHDAY Ava Helen Pauling, American human rights activist (d. 1981)
24th of December 1904 BIRTHDAY Joseph Moses Juran, American industrial engineer and philanthropist (d. 2008)
24th of December 1905 BIRTHDAY Howard Hughes, American film producer and inventor (d. 1976)
24th of December 1906 BIRTHDAY Franz Waxman, German film composer (d. 1967)
24th of December 1907 BIRTHDAY I. F. Stone, American journalist (d. 1989)
24th of December 1910 BIRTHDAY Fritz Leiber, American writer (d. 1992)
24th of December 1910 BIRTHDAY Max Miedinger, typeface designer, famous for creating Helvetica in 1957. (d. 1980)
24th of December 1914 BIRTHDAY Ralph Marterie, American trumpet player and big band leader (d. 1978)
24th of December 1914 BIRTHDAY Herbert Reinecker, German writer (d. 2007)
24th of December 1920 BIRTHDAY Yevgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (d. 1944)
24th of December 1922 BIRTHDAY Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)
24th of December 1923 BIRTHDAY George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004)
24th of December 1923 BIRTHDAY Michael DiBiase, American wrestler (d. 1969)
24th of December 1924 BIRTHDAY Lee Dorsey, American singer (d. 1986)
24th of December 1924 BIRTHDAY Norman Rossington, British actor (d. 1999)
24th of December 1924 BIRTHDAY Grigory Kriss, Russian Olympic champion fencer
24th of December 1924 BIRTHDAY Mohammed Rafi, Indian actor and playback singer (d. 1980)
24th of December 1926 BIRTHDAY Paul Buissonneau, French-born Quebec theatre director
24th of December 1927 BIRTHDAY Mary Higgins Clark, American author
24th of December 1930 BIRTHDAY Robert Joffrey, American choreographer (d. 1988)
24th of December 1931 BIRTHDAY Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer (d. 2008)
24th of December 1931 BIRTHDAY Ray Bryant, American jazz pianist and composer
24th of December 1932 BIRTHDAY On Kawara, Japanese conceptual artist
24th of December 1934 BIRTHDAY Stjepan Mesic, president of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement and president of Croatia
24th of December 1937 BIRTHDAY Felix Mieli Venerando, Brazilian football player
24th of December 1938 BIRTHDAY Valentim Loureiro, Portuguese politician, and former football chairman of Boavista F.C. and Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional
24th of December 1938 BIRTHDAY Bobby Henrich, American baseball player
24th of December 1941 BIRTHDAY John Levene, British actor
24th of December 1943 BIRTHDAY Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
24th of December 1944 BIRTHDAY Daniel Johnson, Jr., Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec
24th of December 1944 BIRTHDAY Mike Curb, American musician, record company executive and politician
24th of December 1944 BIRTHDAY Oswald Gracias, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bombay
24th of December 1944 BIRTHDAY Barry Chuckle, British comedian
24th of December 1945 BIRTHDAY Lemmy, British singer, bassist (Motorhead)
24th of December 1945 BIRTHDAY Steve Smith, Canadian Comedian, The New Red Green Show, Duct Tape Forever
24th of December 1945 BIRTHDAY Nicholas Meyer, American author
24th of December 1946 BIRTHDAY Brenda Howard, American bisexual activist (d. 2005)
24th of December 1946 BIRTHDAY Jeff Sessions, American politician
24th of December 1947 BIRTHDAY Kevin Sheedy, coach of Australian Football League club Essendon FC
24th of December 1948 BIRTHDAY Frank Oliver, New Zealand rugby player
24th of December 1949 BIRTHDAY Warwick Brown, Australian racing driver
24th of December 1949 BIRTHDAY Randy Neugebauer, American politician
24th of December 1950 BIRTHDAY Dana Gioia, American poet
24th of December 1951 BIRTHDAY John D'Acquisto, baseball player
24th of December 1952 BIRTHDAY Christopher Buckley, American author and political commentator
24th of December 1953 BIRTHDAY Francois Loos, French politician
24th of December 1954 BIRTHDAY Jose Maria Figueres, Costa Rican politician
24th of December 1955 BIRTHDAY Grand L. Bush, American actor
24th of December 1955 BIRTHDAY Clarence Gilyard, American actor
24th of December 1957 BIRTHDAY Diane Tell, Quebec singer
24th of December 1957 BIRTHDAY Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
24th of December 1958 BIRTHDAY Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer (d. 2008)
24th of December 1958 BIRTHDAY Paul Pressey, American basketball player
24th of December 1958 BIRTHDAY Gene Sperling, American economist and government official
24th of December 1959 BIRTHDAY Keith Deller, British darts player
24th of December 1959 BIRTHDAY Anil Kapoor, Indian actor
24th of December 1960 BIRTHDAY Glenn McQueen, American animator (d. 2002)
24th of December 1960 BIRTHDAY Carol Vorderman, British television presenter
24th of December 1961 BIRTHDAY Jay Wright, American basketball coach
24th of December 1961 BIRTHDAY Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan
24th of December 1963 BIRTHDAY Jay Bilas, American basketball analyst
24th of December 1963 BIRTHDAY Mary Ramsey, American singer (10,000 Maniacs)
24th of December 1963 BIRTHDAY Caroline Aherne, British comedienne, writer and actress
24th of December 1964 BIRTHDAY Mark Valley, American actor
24th of December 1965 BIRTHDAY Millard Powers, American musician (Counting Crows)
24th of December 1966 BIRTHDAY Diedrich Bader, American actor
24th of December 1967 BIRTHDAY Mikhail Shchennikov, Russian race walker
24th of December 1968 BIRTHDAY Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress and model (d. 2008)
24th of December 1968 BIRTHDAY Marleen Renders, Belgian athlete
24th of December 1968 BIRTHDAY Doyle Bramhall II, American guitarist
24th of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Mark Millar, Scottish comic book writer
24th of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Sean Michael, South African actor
24th of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Brad Anderson, American professional wrestler
24th of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour Party
24th of December 1970 BIRTHDAY Will Oldham, American singer and songwriter
24th of December 1970 BIRTHDAY Amaury Nolasco, American actor
24th of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Giorgos Alkaios, Greek singer
24th of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Christopher Daniels, American professional wrestler
24th of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Sascha Fischer, German rugby player
24th of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer
24th of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Oro, Mexican professional wrestler (d. 1993)
24th of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Alvaro Mesen, Costa Rican footballer
24th of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Klaus Schnellenkamp, German-Chilean author
24th of December 1973 BIRTHDAY Eddie Pope, American soccer player
24th of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Ryan Seacrest, American television host
24th of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Thure Lindhardt, Danish actor
24th of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer
24th of December 1976 BIRTHDAY Yuri Korean singer
24th of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Y?ld?ray Basturk, Turkish footballer
24th of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Warren Tredrea, Australian rules footballer
24th of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Carlson Twins, Kyle and Lane Carlson, American fashion models
24th of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Tonedeff, American rapper
24th of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Chris Hero, American professional wrestler
24th of December 1980 BIRTHDAY Tomas Kalnoky, Czech musician (Streetlight Manifesto)
24th of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Shane Tuck, Australian rules footballer
24th of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Dima Bilan, Karachay-Russian pop artist
24th of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Robert Carmine, American singer
24th of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Aiba Masaki, Japanese singer and actor
24th of December 1983 BIRTHDAY Ansver Oksman, Finnish visual artist
24th of December 1985 BIRTHDAY Alexey Dmitriev, German ice hockey player
24th of December 1985 BIRTHDAY David Ragan, American race car driver
24th of December 1986 BIRTHDAY Riyo Mori, Miss Universe 2007 from Japan
24th of December 1986 BIRTHDAY Kyrylo Fesenko, Ukrainian basketball player
24th of December 1987 BIRTHDAY Jane Summersett, American ice dancer
24th of December 1992 BIRTHDAY Melissa Suffield, English actress
24th of December 1995 BIRTHDAY Anett Kontaveit, Estonian tennis player
24th of December 2000 BIRTHDAY Ethan Bortnick, child musician
24th of December 0427 DEATH Archbishop Sisinnius I of Constantinople
24th of December 0738 DEATH Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad prince and general
24th of December 1257 DEATH John I, Count of Hainaut (Born 1218)
24th of December 1453 DEATH John Dunstaple, English composer (Born c.1390)
24th of December 1524 DEATH Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (Born c.1469)
24th of December 1660 DEATH Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (Born 1631)
24th of December 1707 DEATH Noel Coypel, French painter (Born 1628)
24th of December 1813 DEATH Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (Born 1740)
24th of December 1863 DEATH William Makepeace Thackeray, British writer (Born 1811)
24th of December 1865 DEATH Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter and writer (Born 1793)
24th of December 1868 DEATH Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (Born 1802)
24th of December 1872 DEATH William John Macquorn Rankine, British physician and engenier (Born 1820)
24th of December 1873 DEATH Johns Hopkins, Baltimore philanthropist and businessman (Born 1795)
24th of December 1889 DEATH Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (Born 1819)
24th of December 1898 DEATH Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI (Born 1828)
24th of December 1914 DEATH John Muir, Scottish-American naturalist (Born 1838)
24th of December 1935 DEATH Alban Berg, Austrian composer (Born 1885)
24th of December 1938 DEATH Bruno Taut, German architect (Born 1880)
24th of December 1941 DEATH Siegfried Alkan, German composer (Born 1858)
24th of December 1942 DEATH Francois Darlan, vice-premier of Vichy France (Born 1881)
24th of December 1957 DEATH Norma Talmadge, American actress (Born 1893)
24th of December 1965 DEATH William M. Branham, Christian minister (Born 1906)
24th of December 1967 DEATH Burt Baskin, American entrepreneur (Born 1913)
24th of December 1971 DEATH Maria Koepcke, ornithologist (Born 1924)
24th of December 1972 DEATH Melville Ruick, American actor (Born 1898)
24th of December 1972 DEATH Gisela Richter, British art historian (Born 1882)
24th of December 1975 DEATH Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (Born 1911)
24th of December 1976 DEATH Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the throne of Portugal (Born 1907)
24th of December 1977 DEATH Samael Aun Weor, Columbian writer (Born 1917)
24th of December 1980 DEATH Karl Donitz, German naval admiral, and last leader of Nazi Germany (Born 1891)
24th of December 1980 DEATH Siggie Nordstrom, model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer of The Nordstrom Sisters (Born 1893)
24th of December 1982 DEATH Louis Aragon, French writer (Born 1897)
24th of December 1984 DEATH Peter Lawford, British actor (Born 1923)
24th of December 1985 DEATH Camille Tourville, Professional wrestler (Born 1927)
24th of December 1985 DEATH Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, Last Lincoln descendant (Born 1904)
24th of December 1986 DEATH Gardner Fox, American writer (Born 1911)
24th of December 1987 DEATH Betty Noyes, singer who dubbed Debbie Reynold's singing voice in Singin' in the Rain
24th of December 1987 DEATH Joop den Uyl, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973 until 1977 (Born 1919)
24th of December 1987 DEATH M. G. Ramachandran, Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu (Born 1917)
24th of December 1990 DEATH Thorbj?rn Egner, Norwegian author (Born 1922)
24th of December 1992 DEATH Bobby LaKind, American musician and singer (The Doobie Brothers) (Born 1945)
24th of December 1992 DEATH Peyo, Belgian comics artist, and creator of The Smurfs (Born 1928)
24th of December 1993 DEATH Norman Vincent Peale, American writer (Born 1898)
24th of December 1994 DEATH John Boswell, American historian (Born 1947)
24th of December 1994 DEATH Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor and singer (Born 1916)
24th of December 1997 DEATH Pierre Peladeau, Quebec businessman, founder of Quebecor (Born 1925)
24th of December 1997 DEATH Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (Born 1920)
24th of December 1998 DEATH Syl Apps, Canadian ice hockey player and pole vaulter (Born 1915)
24th of December 1999 DEATH Joao Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, President of Brazil (Born 1918)
24th of December 1999 DEATH Bill Bowerman, American track and field coach (Born 1911)
24th of December 1999 DEATH Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician, Prime minister of France (Born 1907)
24th of December 2000 DEATH John Cooper, English race car designer (Born 1923)
24th of December 2000 DEATH Nick Massi, American singer (The Four Seasons) (Born 1935)
24th of December 2002 DEATH Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (Born 1920)
24th of December 2002 DEATH Jake Thackray, English singer-songwriter (Born 1938)
24th of December 2002 DEATH Laci Peterson, American murder victim (Born 1975)
24th of December 2004 DEATH Johnny Oates, baseball player and manager (Born 1946)
24th of December 2005 DEATH Michael Vale, American commercial actor (Born 1922)
24th of December 2006 DEATH "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (Born 1907)
24th of December 2006 DEATH Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian singer, poet and comedian (Born 1961)
24th of December 2006 DEATH Frank Stanton, American television executive (Born 1908)
24th of December 2007 DEATH Nicholas Pumfrey, British judge (Born 1951)
24th of December 2007 DEATH Akbar Radi, Iranian dramatist and playwright (Born 1939)
24th of December 2008 DEATH Harold Pinter, British playwright (Born 1930)
24th of December 2009 DEATH Rafael Caldera, lawyer, sociologist, writer, speaker, politician, and ex-president of Venezuela (Born 1916)
24th of December 2009 DEATH George Michael, American sportscaster (The George Michael Sports Machine) (Born 1939)
24th of December 2010 DEATH Elisabeth Beresford, British author and creator of The Wombles (Born 1926)
24th of December 2010 DEATH Orestes Quercia, Brazilian politician (Born 1938)
24th of December 2010 DEATH Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer (Born 1930)