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Day Of The Week: December 24
December 24, 2025 is the 358th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 7 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Capricorn is your zodiac sign. Turquoise is your modern birthstone. Onyx is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: December 24
- 1826 –The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy begins that night, wrapping up the following morning.
- 1865 –The Ku Klux Klan is formed.
- 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.
- 1939 –World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
- 1941 –World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.
- 1964 –Vietnam War: Viet Cong operatives bomb the Brinks Hotel in Saigon 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 10 lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures that became the famous Christmas Eve Broadcast, one of the most watched programs in history.
- 1979 –The first European Ariane rocket is launched.
Who were born on December 24?
- 1867 –Kantarō Suzuki, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
- 1868 –Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (d. 1941)
- 1877 –Sigrid Schauman, Finnish painter (d. 1979)
- 1894 –Georges Guynemer, French aviator (d. 1917)
- 1895 –E. Roland Harriman, American financier (d. 1978)
- 1898 –Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (d. 1959)
- 1907 –I. F. Stone, American journalist (d. 1989)
- 1941 –John Levene, British actor
- 1954 –José María Figueres, Costa Rican politician
- 1982 –Aiba Masaki, Japanese singer and actor
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