25 December

The 25t o December is the 359t day o the year (360t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 6 days bidin.

Events
800 - Charlemagne is crouned Haly Roman Emperor.
1066 - William the Conqueror is crouned King o Ingland.
1559 - Pape Pius IV is electit.
1758 - Halley's Comet appears, as predictit bi Edmond Halley. 
1776 - George Washington and his airmy cross the Delaware River tae attack the monarchy's Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey.
1926 - Hirohito becomes Emperor o Japan.
1932 - A yirdquauk in Gansu, Cheenae, kills 70,000 fowk.
1952 - Queen Elizabeth II delivers her first Christenmas message.
1977 - Menachem Begin meets Anwar Sadat for talks in Egyp.
1989 - Deposed Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu an his wife Elena are executit.
1990 - First trial run o the Warld Wide Web.
1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as Soviet leader.
2003 - The Beagle 2 probe goes missin on the planet Mars.
2004 - Cassini-Huygens: The Cassini orbiter releases the Huygens probe, which will laund on Saturn's muin Titan.
2016 - A Roushie Defence Ministry Tupolev-154 aircraft crashes intae the Black Sea shortly efter tak-aff frae Sochi, killin aw 92 fowk on baird.

Births
 4 BC − Jesus Christ (conventional datin)
 1652 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scots medicinar (d. 1713)
 1665 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scots sangwriter (d. 1746)
 1717 - Pape Pius VI (d. 1799)
 1876 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, leader o Pakistan (d. 1948)
 1876 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist (d. 1959)
 1899 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)
 1906 - Ernst Ruska, German pheesicist (d. 1988)
 1918 - Ahmed Ben Bella, 1st Preses o Algerie (d. 2012)
 1918 - Anwar Sadat, Preses o Egyp (d. 1981)
 1924 - Atal Bihari Vajpayee, umwhile Prime meenister o Indie; d. 2018
 1927 - Ram Narayan, Indian muisicker
 1949 - Nawaz Sharif, umwhile Prime meenister o Pakistan
 1949 - Sissy Spacek, American actress
 1950 - Karl Rove, American poleetical advisor
 1954 - Annie Lennox, Scots sangster
 1957 - Shane MacGowan, Erse sangster
 1959 - Michael P. Anderson, American astronaut (d. 2003)
 1961 - Ingrid Betancourt, Colombian politeecian
 1964 - Gary McAllister, Scots fitbawer
 1971 - Dido, Inglis sangster
 1971 - Justin Trudeau, Prime meenister o Canadae

Daiths
 795 - Pape Adrian I
 1635 - Samuel de Champlain, French splorer (b. 1567)
 1875 - Young Tom Morris, Scots gowfer (b. 1851)
 1926 - Emperor Taisho o Japan (b. 1879)
 1977 - Charlie Chaplin, Inglis actor, director an comedian (b. 1889)
 1989 - Nicolae Ceausescu, leader o Romanie (b. 1918)
 2000 - Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (b. 1908)
 2006 - James Brown, American sangster (b. 1933)
 2008 - Eartha Kitt, American sangster (b. 1927)
 2015 - Ali Eid, Lebanese politeecian (b. 1940)
 2016 - George Michael, Inglis sangster (b. 1963)

Halidays
 Yuil
 Christenmas
 Birthday o Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Pakistan)

Category:Days o the year