User:NestedVariable
Appearance
NestedVariable
|
December 25: Christmas (Western Christianity; Gregorian calendar); Hanukkah (Judaism) begins at sunset; Quaid-e-Azam Day in Pakistan
- 1046 – Henry III was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement II.
- 1724 – Johann Sebastian Bach led the first performance of Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, based on the Christmas hymn written by Martin Luther in 1524.
- 1831 – A Baptist preacher named Samuel Sharpe began an unsuccessful eleven-day slave revolt in Jamaica.
- 1991 – In a nationally televised speech, Mikhail Gorbachev (pictured) resigned as President of the Soviet Union.
- 2009 – A fire destroyed Longford's 19th-century St Mel's Cathedral, considered the "flagship cathedral" of the Irish midlands.
- Humphrey Bogart (b. 1899)
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee (b. 1924)
- Billy Martin (d. 1989)
- Zail Singh (d. 1994)
More anniversaries: