Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 25

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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
A Beagle 2 replica
Emperor Hirohito
National anthem of Russia
William the Conqueror and his brothers
Baldwin I of Jerusalem
Thelnetham Windmill

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
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
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
Sadiq al-Mahdi (b. 1935)	missing ISBNs

Eligible

36 – The empire of Chengjia was conquered by the Eastern Han dynasty after the death of its emperor Gongsun Shu.
1100 – Baldwin of Boulogne was crowned as Baldwin I of Jerusalem, the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
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.
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.
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.
1950 – Four Scottish university students removed the Stone of Scone, used in the coronations of Scottish and British monarchs, from London's Westminster Abbey.
1968 – In Tamil Nadu, India, families of striking Dalit workers were massacred by a gang, allegedly led by their landlords.
1990 – British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee introduced WorldWideWeb, the world's first web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor.
1991 – In a nationally televised speech, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union.
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: Zhang Jingda (d. 936) · Makan ibn Kaki (d. 940) · Nina E. Allender (b. 1873) · Otto Frederick Hunziker (b. 1873) · Atal Bihari Vajpayee (b. 1924)

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 (Western Christianity; Gregorian calendar); Quaid-e-Azam Day in Pakistan

St Mel's Cathedral in 2015

1066 – Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror was crowned king of England at Westminster Abbey, although he continued to face rebellions over the following years and was not secure on the throne until after 1072.
1809 – American physician Ephraim McDowell performed the world's first removal of an ovarian tumor.
1989 – Romanian Revolution: Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena were condemned to death on a wide range of charges and executed.
2009 – A fire destroyed Longford's 19th-century St Mel's Cathedral (restored cathedral pictured), considered the "flagship cathedral" of the Irish midlands.

Sverker I of Sweden (d. 1156) · Lady Grizel Baillie (b. 1665) · Joan Miró (d. 1983)

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