Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 24
- 1777 - Christmas Island, the oldest atoll in the world, was discovered by Captain James Cook.
- 1865 - Confederate veterans founded the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group.
- 1906 - Reginald Fessenden (pictured) transmitted the first radio broadcast.
- 1914 - British and German soldiers interrupted World War I to celebrate Christmas, beginning the Christmas truce.
- 1974 - Cyclone Tracy destroyed most of Darwin, Australia.
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