Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 25
This is a list of selected December 25 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Mikhail Gorbachev -
Coronation of Charlemagne -
Nicolae Ceaușescu -
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Emperor Hirohito -
National anthem of Russia
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William the Conqueror and his brothers -
Baldwin I of Jerusalem
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 800 – In Rome's St. Peter's Basilica, Frankish King Charlemagne was crowned Imperator Augustus by Pope Leo III} as a rival of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople. | refimprove section |
| 1643 – Captain William Mynors of the East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary, landed at an uninhabited island and named it Christmas Island. | refimprove sections, unreferenced sections |
| 1926 – Emperor Taishō died of a heart attack, and was succeeded by his son, Hirohito, who ruled until his death in 1989, becoming the longest-reigning Emperor of Japan. | refimprove section |
| 1947 – The Constitution of the Republic of China went into effect, amid the ongoing Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Communists. | refimprove |
| 1991 – In a nationally televised speech, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union. | unreferenced section |
| 2003 – The Beagle 2 space probe, part of the European Space Agency's Mars Express mission, disappeared shortly before its scheduled landing on Mars. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 36 – The empire of Chengjia was conquered by the Eastern Han dynasty after the death of its emperor Gongsun Shu.
- 1066 – Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey, although he still faced rebellions over the following years and was not secure on his throne until after 1072.
- 1100 – Baldwin of Boulogne was crowned as Baldwin I of Jerusalem, the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
- 1809 – American physician Ephraim McDowell performed the world's first removal of an ovarian tumor.
- 1831 – A Baptist preacher named Samuel Sharpe began an unsuccessful eleven-day slave revolt in Jamaica.
- 1927 – The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng, a revolutionary socialist political party that sought Vietnamese independence from French colonial rule, was formed in Hanoi.
- 1950 – Four Scottish university students removed the Stone of Scone, the traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, from London's Westminster Abbey.
- 1989 – Romanian Revolution: Dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena were condemned to death under a wide range of charges and executed.
- 1990 – British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee introduced WorldWideWeb, the world's first web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor.
- 2000 – Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law that officially established a new national anthem of Russia, with music adapted from the anthem of the Soviet Union that was composed by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov.
- 2007 – A tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escaped from its enclosure and attacked three patrons before it was shot and killed.
- 2009 – Aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear.
- 2016 – A Tupolev Tu-154 of the Russian Defence Ministry crashed into the Black Sea shortly after taking off from Sochi International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.
- Born/died: Makan ibn Kaki (d. 940) · Nina E. Allender (b. 1873) · Sadiq al-Mahdi (b. 1935)
Notes
- Richard Reid/2001 shoe bomb plot appears on December 22, so Umar Abdulmutallab/Northwest Airlines Flight 253 should not appear in the same year
- Kiritimati, also known as Christmas Island, appears on December 24, so Christmas Island should not appear in the same year
- Gongsun Shu appears on December 24, so Chenjia should not appear in the same year
December 25: Christmas (Gregorian calendar); Quaid-e-Azam Day (Pakistan)
- 1758 – Based on predictions by Edmond Halley in 1705, Johann Georg Palitzsch observed a comet that was later named Halley's Comet.
- 1815 – The Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States, made its debut at King's Chapel in Boston.
- 1941 – Second World War: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began when Mark Aitchison Young, the Governor of Hong Kong, surrendered the territory to Japan after 18 days of fierce fighting.
- 1968 – In Tamil Nadu, India, families of striking Dalit workers were massacred by a gang, allegedly led by their landlords.
- 2009 – Fire destroyed Longford's 19th-century St Mel's Cathedral (pictured), considered the "flagship cathedral" of the Irish midlands.
Zhang Jingda (d. 936) · Otto Frederick Hunziker (b. 1873) · Atal Bihari Vajpayee (b. 1924)