December 25 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 Gift-giving Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇹🇼 Taiwan – Constitution Day.
🇮🇳 India – Good Governance Day.
🇵🇪 Peru – Takanakuy wrestling festival.
🇵🇰 Pakistan – Quaid-i-Azam Day.
🇲🇿 Mozambique – Family Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 800 – Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne emperor.
– 1000 – Stephen I ascended the throne of Hungary.
– 1066 – William I the Conqueror took the crown of England.
– 1130 – Roger II ascended the throne of the Kingdom of Sicily.
– 1492 – Columbus founded the first Spanish settlement in the New World – La Navidad on the island of Hispaniola.
– 1745 – A separate peace treaty was signed in Dresden.
– 1759 – Joseph Braun succeeded in obtaining solid mercury in St. Petersburg.
– 1917 – Soviet power was established in Ukraine.
– 1946 – The first nuclear reactor in Europe was launched in the USSR.
– 1968 – The Nukus district of the Republic of Karakalpakstan and the Muzrabot district of the Surkhandarya region were established.
– 1979 – The Afghan War: the introduction of the USSR army into the country.
– 1989 – Former Romanian leader (1965-1989) Nicolae Ceausescu was shot.
– 1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigned of his own free will, leaving the USSR from the stage of history.
– 1993 – The current constitution of Russia came into force.
– 2003 – Boeing-747 crash in Cotonou (Benin). 140 victims.
– 2010 – Anomaly of freezing rain began in the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, which lasted from Europe to the United States for two weeks.
– 2016 – Tu-154 crash near Sochi. 92 victims.
