Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 24

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  Du Fu
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  A radio
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  Reginald Fessenden
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  KKK rituals
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  Ariane 1 replica
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  Earthrise as seen by the crew of Apollo 8
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  Christmas Island (Kiritimati)
• Christmas truce
  Christmas truce
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  Earthrise as seen by the crew of Apollo 8
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  The advertisement that spurred the creation of NORAD Tracks Santa
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  "Silent Night"
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  Wreckage of the Tangiwai disaster

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Christmas Eve (Gregorian calendar)	unreferenced section
1294 – [[Pope Boniface VIII|Template:Nowrap]] began his papacy, replacing [[Pope Celestine V|St. Template:Nowrap]], who had declared that it was permissible for a Pope to resign, and then promptly did so.	refimprove section
1777 – An expedition led by English explorer James Cook reached Christmas Island, the largest coral atoll in the world.	refimprove
1826 – More than a third of U.S. Military Academy cadets in West Point, New York, rioted after consuming eggnog with whiskey during a Christmas party.	{Single source} {Self-published source}
1968 – Astronaut William Anders of the NASA Apollo 8 mission, the first manned voyage to orbit the Moon, took the famous photograph known as "Earthrise", showing the Earth rising above the lunar surface.	unreferenced section
1974 – Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin, Australia, eventually destroying more than 70% of the city.	refimprove section
1979 – Ariane 1, the first launch vehicle to be developed by the European Space Agency, had its first launch.	no orbital elements, unreferenced section
Jeff Sessions |b|1946	outdated

Eligible

• 1818 – The Christmas carol "Silent Night" (audio featured) by Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber was first performed in a church in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria.
• 1846 – The Sultanate of Brunei ceded the island of Labuan to the British Empire.
• 1865 – Six Confederate veterans of the American Civil War founded a social club they named the Ku Klux Klan, which later became a white supremacist group.
• 1871 – Aida, one of Giuseppe Verdi's most popular operas, made its debut in Cairo, Egypt.
• 1913 – Seventy-three people were crushed to death in a stampede after someone falsely yelled "fire" at a crowded Christmas party in Calumet, Michigan, U.S.
• 1914 – World War I: British and German soldiers interrupted fighting to celebrate Christmas, beginning the Christmas truce .
• 1918 – Forces united in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes defeated Hungarian forces to end the occupation of Međimurje.
• 1953 – A railway bridge at Tangiwai on New Zealand's North Island was damaged by a lahar and collapsed beneath a passenger train (wreckage pictured), killing 151 people.
• 1955 – According to legend, the NORAD Tracks Santa program began after children began calling the Continental Air Defense Command Center to inquire about Santa Claus's whereabouts due to a misprinted phone number in an advertisement.
• 1964 – The Viet Cong bombed the Brinks Hotel in Saigon, killing two U.S. Army officers and raising fears of an escalation of the Vietnam War.
• 1968 – Piloted by Jim Lovell, Apollo 8 became the first human spaceflight to reach and orbit the Moon (Earthrise pictured).
• 1973 – The U.S. Congress granted home rule to Washington, D.C., allowing the residents to elect their own mayor and a city council.
• 1983 – Aeroflot Flight 601 crashed on approach to Leshukonskoye in the Russian SSR, killing 44 out of 49 people on board.
• 2008 – The Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, began attacks on several villages in the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing hundreds and committing numerous atrocities.
• 2021 – Burmese military forces killed at least 40 civilians during the Mo So massacre in Kayah State, Myanmar.
• Born/died: | Gongsun Shu|d|36| Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik|d|738| Yang Bin|d|950| Walter Bower|d|1449| Leonaert Bramer|b|1596| William Warburton|b|1698| George Crabbe|b|1754| Adam Mickiewicz |b|1798| Thomas H. Branch |b|1856| Johnny Gruelle|b|1880| Adam Exner|b|1928| Anthony Fauci |b|1940| Shūmei Ōkawa|d|1957| Pernilla Wahlgren |b|1967| Ryan Seacrest |b|1974| Louis Tomlinson |b|1991| Turid Birkeland|d|2015|

Notes

• Apollo 8 appears on December 21, so Earthrise should not appear in the same year
• Christmas Island appears on December 25, so Kiritimati (aka Christmas Island, the 1777 blurb) should not appear in the same year

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• 759 – The Tang-dynasty poet Du Fu departed for Chengdu, where he lived for the next five years and composed poems about life in his thatched cottage.
• 1777 – An expedition led by English explorer James Cook reached Christmas Island (pictured), the largest coral atoll in the world.
• 1814 – The United Kingdom and the United States signed a peace treaty in Ghent, present-day Belgium, ending the War of 1812.
• 1979 – The Soviet government deployed troops in Afghanistan, starting the Soviet–Afghan War.
• 1999 – Jihadists linked to al-Qaeda hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 to force the release of Islamist figures held in prison in India.