December 24 holidays, events, history
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan – National Anthem Day of the Republic of Karakalpakstan.
🇮🇳 India – National Consumer Rights Protection Day.
🇫🇲 Micronesia – Constitution Day.
🇱🇾 Libya – Independence Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1777 – James Cook discovered Christmas Island.
– 1800 – Attempted assassination of Napoleon, the first consul of France.
– 1801 – English mechanic Richard Trevithick demonstrated the first steam-powered car.
– 1865 – The Ku Klux Klan was formed.
– 1900 – The first issue of the Iskra newspaper was published abroad.
– 1914 – New Year’s Agreement in the First World War.
– 1924 – Albania became a republic.
– 1942 – The People’s Commissariat of the RSFSR issued a decree on the mandatory use of the letter “Ё”.
– 1961 – Libya was declared an independent state.
– 1968 – The Earth was photographed from space.
– 1979 – Successful launch of the French carrier rocket “Arian”.
– 1982 – First test flight of the An-124 “Ruslan” military transport aircraft.
– 1991 – Russia replaced the USSR in the UN.
– 1993 – The National Anthem of the Republic of Karakalpakstan was approved.
– 1994 – The first round of multi-party elections to the Oliy Majlis was held for the first time
– 1994 – An Air France plane with 232 people on board was hijacked in Algeria. Two days later, the plane was hijacked in Marseille.
– 2018 – The flag and emblem of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan were approved.
