The 24t o December is the 358t day o the year (359t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 7 days bidin.
1777 : Kiritimati
1968 : Photograph o the Yird
1717 - The North Sea Christenmas flood kills 11,500 fowk.
1726 - Montevideo , caipital ceety o Uruguay , is foondit.
1777 - James Cook reaches Kiritimati (cried Christenmas Island an aa) in the Line Islands in present-day Kiribati , Pacific 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 becomes 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 taks a photograph o the yird .
1974 - Cyclone Tracy sweeps across the ceety o Darwin , Northren Territory , Australie .
1979 - The first European -biggit rocket, Ariane, is launched frae French Guiana .
1997 - Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal is sentencit tae 20 year 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 .
2018 - The govrenment o Burundi decides tae muive the kintra's caipital frae Bujumbura tae Gitenga .
Empress Elisabeth o Austrick
Tarja Halonen
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 )
1843 - Lydia Koidula , Estonie poet (d. 1886 )
1845 - King 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 (d. 2020 )
1938 - Philippe Nahon , French actor (d. 2020 )
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
1962 - Kate Spade , American fashion designer (d. 2018 )
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
1524 - Vasco da Gama , Portuguese splorer (b. 1469 )
1863 - William Makepeace Thackeray , Inglis writer (b. 1811 )
1872 - William John Macquorn Rankine , Scots medicinar an ingineer (b. 1820 )
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 )
1985 - Erich Schaedler , Scots fitbawer (b. 1949 )
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 , Inglis writer (b. 1920 )
2016 - Edwin Reinecke , American politeecian (b. 1924 )
Christenmas Nativity Scene