The 24t o December is the 358t day o the year (359t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 7 days bidin.
Events
1777: Kiritimati
1968: Photograph o the Yird
- 1726 - Montevideo, caipital ceety o Uruguay, is foondit.
- 1717 - The North Sea Christenmas flood kills 11,500 fowk.
- 1777 - James Cook reaches Kiritimati (an aa kent as Christenmas Island) in the Line Islands in present-day Kiribati, Paceefic Ocean.
- 1818 - The Silent Nicht Christenmas carol is first performed in Austrick.
- 1865 - The Ku Klux Klan is foondit.
- 1914 - The Christenmas Truce occurs during Warld War I.
- 1924 - Albanie acomes a republic.
- 1951 - Libie gains unthirldom frae Italy.
- 1953 - 153 fowk are kilt in the Tangiwai rail disaster in New Zealand.
- 1954 - Laos is declarit independent.
- 1968 - The crew o Apollo 8 takes a photograph o the yird.
- 1974 - Cyclone Tracy sweeps across the ceety o Darwin, Northren Territory, Australie.
- 1979 - The first Europeaan-biggit rocket, Ariane, is launched frae French Guiana.
- 1997 - Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal is sentencit tae 20 years in gaol bi a coort in Paris.
- 2013 - Queen Elizabeth II pardons Alan Turing, who had been convictit o homosexuality when it was still illegal in the Unitit Kinrick.
- 2017 - Alberto Fujimori, umwhile Preses o Peru, is pardoned on heal groonds.
- 2017 - Guatemala propales its plan tae muive its Embassy in Israel frae Tel Aviv tae Jerusalem.
Births
Empress Elisabeth o Austrick
- 3 BC - Galba, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
- 1166 - John, Keeng o Ingland (d. 1216)
- 1761 - Selim III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1808)
- 1786 - Gregor MacGregor, Scots sodger, adventurer an confidence trickster (d. 1845)
- 1798 - Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (d. 1855)
- 1818 - James Prescott Joule, Inglis pheesicist (d. 1889)
- 1837 - Empress Elisabeth o Austrick (d. 1898)
- 1845 - Keeng George I o Greece (d. 1913)
- 1868 - Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (d. 1941)
- 1905 - Howard Hughes, American business tycoon an aviator (d. 1976)
- 1927 - Mary Higgins Clark, American writer
- 1943 - Tarja Halonen, umwhile Preses o Finland
- 1945 - Lemmy Kilmister, Inglis muisicker (Motörhead) (d. 2015)
- 1946 - Jeff Sessions, 84t Unitit States Attorney General
- 1957 - Hamid Karzai, umwhile Preses o Afghanistan
- 1958 - Philippa Whitford, Scots surgeon an politeecian
- 1961 - Ilham Aliyev, Preses o Azerbaijan
- 1969 - Ed Miliband, Inglis politeecian
- 1971 - Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican sangster an actor
- 1973 - Stephenie Meyer, American author
- 1974 - Marcelo Salas, Chilean fitbawer
- 1981 - Dima Bilan, Roushie sangster
Daiths
- 1524 - Vasco da Gama, Portuguese splorer (b. 1469)
- 1863 - William Makepeace Thackeray, Inglis writer (b. 1811)
- 1914 - John Muir, Scots-American conservationist (b. 1838)
- 1979 - Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (b. 1940)
- 1980 - Karl Dönitz, German admiral an politeecian (b. 1891)
- 2008 - Harold Pinter, Inglis playwricht (b. 1930)
- 2011 - Johannes Heesters, Dutch-born actor an sangster (b. 1903)
- 2012 - Charles Durning, American actor (b. 1923)
- 2016 - Rick Parfitt, Inglis muisicker (b. 1948)
- 2016 - Richard Adams, writer (b. 1920)
- 2016 - Edwin Reinecke, American politeecian (b. 1924)
Halidays
