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December 24 is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (359th in leap years). There are 7 days remaining.
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- 640 - John IV becomes Popel
- 1814 - The Treaty of Ghent was signed which ended the War of 1812
- 1818 - Silent Night composed by Franz Xaver Gruber
- 1851 - Library of Congress burns
- 1865 - Several US Civil War Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan
- 1906Events January 8 Landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20 January 31 Earthquake in Ecuador (8. 6 in Richter scale) February 11 Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos''. February 15 Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in t - The first radioFor other uses see: radio (disambiguation Radio is a technology that allows the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of light. Radio waves Radio waves are a form of electromagnetic radiation, and are program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, broadcasts
- 1914Events January 4 77 seal hunters freeze to death on ice near Labrador January 5 Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor February 13 Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Compos - World War IWorld War I (also known as the First World War , the Great War the War of the Nations and the "War to End All Wars") was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers, or involved so many in the field of: The " Christmas truceThe so-called Christmas truce began on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1914, during World War I, when German troops began decorating the area around their trenches in the region of Ypres, Belgium for Christmas. They began by placing candles on trees, then con" begins
- 1924Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 See also 1924 in aviation 1924 in film 1924 in literature 1924 in mu - AlbaniaAlbania is a country in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Montenegro in the north, Serbia ( Kosovo) in the north-east, the Republic of Macedonia in the east, and Greece in the south, has a coast on the Adriatic Sea in the west, and a coast on the Ion becomes a republic
- 19431943 is the common year starting on Friday. Events January January 4 End of term for Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Earl Warren. January 11 The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China. January 1 - US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the supreme Allied commander
- 1946 - France's Fourth Republic founded
- 1951 - Libya becomes independent from Italy
- 1953 - 153 people die as a result of the Tangiwai disaster when the railway bridge collapses at Tangiwai, New Zealand sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River
- 1953 - NBC's Dragnet becomes the first network-sponsored television program
- 1954 - Laos becomes independent
- 1966 - A CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam killing 129
- 1968 - The crew of the USS Pueblo was released by North Korea after being held for 11 months on suspicion of spying.
- 1969 - Curt Flood writes to Bowie K. Kuhn, the Commissioner of Baseball, asking to be declared a free agent .
- 1979 - The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan to support the country's Marxist government.
- 1997 - The Dominican Republic becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 2000 - The Texas 7 holds up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot in the incident.
- 2003 - The Spanish police thwarts an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 PM inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station .
