On this day in History - Dec. 25

• 0001 -BC- Jesus of Nazareth religious leader/philosopher (estimated date) birth of Jesus (d. circa 30), considered to be the Son of God (by Christians); also considered an ascetic prophet of Islam. The date of Jesus' birth is celebrated on several different days worldwide.
• 0336 - A primeira celebração de Natal no dia 25 de dezembro ocorre em Roma.
• 0795 - Pope Adrian I dies
• 0800 - Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
• 1000 - Étienne, duc des Magyars est sacré roi de Hongrie.
• 1066 - William the Conqueror was crowned King of England.
• 1223 - Saint Francis of Assisi assembles the first Nativity scene.
• 1582 - Zealand / Brabant adopts Gregorian calendar, yesterday was Dec 14th
• 1583 - Orlando Gibbons was born (d. 1625). English composer.
• 1599- The city of Natal, capital of Grande Rio do Norte is founded.
• 1642 - Sir Isaac Newton was born (d. 1727). Physicist, mathematician ans astronomer.
• 1683 - L'Espagne déclare la guerre à la France
• 1761 - Elisabeth Petrovna dies. Tsarina of Russia (1741-62).
• 1776 - George Washington crossed the Delaware River and surprised the Hessians.
• 1818 - The first performance of "Silent Night" (Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria).
• 1818 - Handel's Messiah, US premieres in Boston.
• 1821 - Clara Barton was born (d. 1912). Founder of the American Red Cross.
• 1830 - Hector Berlioz's "Symphony Fantastic," premieres
• 1837 - Battle of Okeechobee - United States forces defeat Seminole Indians.
• 1856 - Hans von Bartels was born (d. 1913). German painter.
• 1861 - Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya was born (d. 1946). Indian founder of Banaras Hindu University.
• 1868 - US President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War rebels.
• 1868 - Ezo Republic founded in Hokkaido by Shogunate rebels.
• 1875 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer was born (d. 1955). Austrian Catholic archbishop.
• 1876 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah was born (d. 1948). Founder of Pakistan.
• 1876 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus was born (d. 1959). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1878 - Louis Chevrolet was born (d. 1941). Swiss-born race car driver and automotive pioneer.
• 1883 - Maurice Utrillo was born (d. 1955). French artist.
• 1884 - Evelyn Nesbit was born (d. 1967). American actress.
• 1884 - Francisco Pulido Valente was born. Portuguese physician.
• 1886 - Kid Ory was born (d. 1973). American musician
• 1887 - Conrad Nicholson Hilton was born (d. 1979). American hotelier.
• 1890 - Robert Ripley was born (d. 1949). World traveler and collector of odd facts and artifacts.
• 1892 - Irene Lisboa was born. Portuguese writer.
• 1895 - Raul D'Ávila Pompeia dies - suicide (b. 12 Apr 1863). Brazilian writer.
• 1899 - Humphrey Bogart was born (d. 1957). Actor.
• 1901 - Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester was born (d. 2004)
• 1904 - Gerhard Herzberg was born (d. 1999). German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1906 - Sir Lew Grade was born (d. 1998)., Ukrainian-born film producer.
• 1906 - Ernst Ruska was born (d. 1988). German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1907 - Cab Calloway was born (d. 1994). American bandleader.
• 1908 - Quentin Crisp was born (d. 1999). English author and activist.
• 1912 - Tony Martin was born. American singer
• 1912 - Natalino Otto was born. Italian singer
• 1913 - Henri Nannen was born (d. 1966). German journalist and publisher.
• 1914 - Just after midnight on Christmas morning, German troops on the Western Front cease firing their guns and artillery and start singing Christmas carols. Crossing the No man's land, they trade gifts with the enemy forces that face them. The Christmas truce lasts for several days, depending on the location.
• 1915 - Pete Rugolo was born. Italian-born composer and arranger
• 1917 - Why Marry?, first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City
• 1918 - Anwar Sadat was born (d. 1981). Egyptian president. Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1920 - Artur Agostinho was born. Portuguese sportive journalist, actor and radio personality.
• 1924 - Rod Serling was born (d. 1975). American television scriptwriter.
• 1924 - Atal Behari Vajpayee was born. Prime Minister of India
• 1925 - Carlos Castaneda was born (d. 1998). Peruvian-born author
• 1926 - Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan succeeding the Taisho Emperor.
• 1927 - Nellie Fox was born (d. 1975). Baseball player.
• 1928 - Dick Miller was born. American actor.
• 1930 - Hermes Fontes dies in Rio de Janeiro - suicide (b. 28 Aug 1888). Brazilian poet, journalist and composer.
• 1931 - New York’s Metropolitan Opera broadcast an entire opera over radio for the first time: "Hansel and Gretel" by Engelbert Humperdinck.
• 1932 - A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills around 70,000 people
• 1936 - Ismail Merchant was born (d. 2005). Indian-born film producer.
• 1941 - during World War II, Japan announced the surrender of the British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong.
• 1943 - Hanna Schygulla was born. German actress
• 1944 - Jairzinho was born. Brazilian footballer
• 1945 - Noel Redding was born (d. 2003). English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
• 1945 - Gary Sandy was born. American actor
• 1946 - Jimmy Buffett was born. American singer and songwriter
• 1946 - Larry Csonka was born. American football player
• 1946 - Gene Lamont was born. American baseball player and manager
• 1946 - W. C. Fields dies in Pasadena, California at age 66. American comedian.
• 1946 - Constitution accepted in Taiwan
• 1947 - The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect.
• 1948 - Barbara Mandrell was born. American singer and actress
• 1949 - Nawaz Sharif was born. Prime Minister of Pakistan
• 1949 - Sissy Spacek was born. American actress
• 1949 - Joe Louis Walker was born. American musician
• 1949 - Simone was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1950 - Manny Trillo was born. Baseball player
• 1950 - Karl Rove was born. American presidential advisor
• 1950 - Xavier Villaurrutia dies at 47. Mexican Poet (Nostalgia de la muerte)
• 1953 - Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand).
• 1954 - Annie Lennox was born. Singer of Eurythmics.
• 1957 - Shane MacGowan was born. Irish musician
• 1958 - Hanford Dixon was born. American football player
• 1958 - Rickey Henderson was born. Baseball player
• 1959 - Michael P. Anderson was born (d. 2003). Astronaut
• 1961 - Ingrid Betancourt was born. Colombian senator
• 1962 - Dean Cameron was born. American actor
• 1964 - Gary McAllister was born. Scottish footballer
• 1967 - Jason Thirsk was born. American bass player (Pennywise)
• 1967 - Paul McCartney & Jane Asher get engaged .
• 1968 - Helena Christensen was born. Danish model & actress
• 1971 - Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul
• 1971 - Noel Hogan was born. Rock musician (The Cranberries ).
• 1971 - Dido was born. English singer
• 1971 - Justin Trudeau was born. Son of former Canadian Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau
• 1973 - The ARPANET crashes when a programming bug causes all ARPANET traffic to be routed through the server at Harvard University, causing the server to freeze.
• 1974 - Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia
• 1975 - Marcus Trescothick was born. English cricketer
• 1976 - Tuomas Holopainen was born. Finnish keyboardist and composer (Nightwish)
• 1976 - Armin van Buuren was born. Dutch keyboardist
• 1976 - Egyptian SS Patria sinks in Red Sea, about 100 killed
• 1976 -Takeo Fukuda becomes Japanese Premier
• 1977 - Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with President of Egypt Anwar Sadat
• 1977 - Charlie Chaplin dies in Switzerland at age 88. British-born American film actor, director and producer .
• 1979 -Major restoration project for the sphinx starts in Egypt.
• 1980 - Reika Hashimoto was born. Japanese actress and model.
• 1983 - Joan Miró dies (b. 1893). Spanish surrealist painter.
• 1989 - Former baseball manager Billy Martin died in a traffic accident in Fenton, N.Y.
• 1989 - Vaclav Havel is elected President of Chekoslovakia.
• 1989 - Former Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife were executed.
• 1991 - President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned following the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
• 1994 - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at a Jerusalem bus stop, injuring a dozen other people.
• 1994 -Pope John Paul II, in his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" message, bemoaned "selfishness and violence" around the world.
• 1994 - Zail Singh dies (b. 1916). President of India.
• 1995 - Dean Martin dies (b. 1917). Singer, actor.
• 1999 - Space shuttle Discovery’s astronauts finished their repair job on the Hubble Space Telescope.
• 1999 - A Cuban airplane crashed in northern Venezuela, killing all 22 aboard.
• 2000 - Willard Van Orman Quine dies (b. 1908). American philosopher.
• 2002 - New Delhi Metro opens.
• 2003 -Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf survived a second assassination bid in 11 days, but 17 other people were killed.
• 2003 - A plane crashed after taking off from Benin, killing at least 130 of the 161 people aboard.
• 2003- Sixteen people were killed by mudslides that swept over campgrounds in California’s San Bernardino Valley.
• 2004 - Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which will land on Saturn's moon, Titan on January 14 , 2005.
• Christmas Day is celebrated on this day.