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Events on December 24

• 1818 Joseph Mohr, assistant pastor at St. Nicholas Church in Oberndorf near Salzburg, hands village teacher and organist Franz Xaver Gruber a poem, asking him to compose a melody for it. On the same night, Silent Night, Holy Night is sung for the first time at the Christmas Eve Mass.
• 1871 The opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, with the libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario by Auguste Mariette, is premiered at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo.
• 1906 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden broadcasts the first radio transmission from a radio station in Brant Rock, Massachusetts.
• 1914 Approximately 100,000 soldiers on the Western and Eastern Fronts of the First World War lay down their weapons in an unauthorized armistice. This Christmas Truce lasts several days.
• 1953 The Paul trap for storing small charged particles is filed for patent by its inventors Wolfgang Paul and Helmut Steinwedel.
• 1968 With Apollo 8, a human crew consisting of Frank Borman, James Arthur Lovell and William Anders orbits the Moon for the first time. William Anders photographs the Earthrise (English: Earthrise), a scene that will become famous.
• 1979 The first European launch vehicle, Ariane, successfully launches from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.
• 1989 Four days after the start of the US invasion of Panama, Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega is overthrown. Noriega flees to the Vatican embassy.
• 1991 Russia receives a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council as the legal successor to the Soviet Union.
• 2003 The Hartz IV Act (“Fourth Act on Modern Services in the Labour Market”,) is proclaimed, merging social assistance and unemployment benefits as of January 1, 2005.
• 2012 The final issue of the American news magazine Newsweek is published.
• 2013 Queen Elizabeth II “pardons” the British mathematician Alan Turing posthumously, who was convicted in 1952 because of a homosexual relationship and subsequently committed suicide in 1954.

Born on December 24

• 1859 Samuel Fischer, German publisher
• 1881 Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish lyric poet and prose writer, Nobel laureate
• 1910 Max Miedinger, Swiss graphic artist and typographer
• 1922 Ava Gardner, American actress
• 1931 Mauricio Kagel, Argentine-German composer and conductor, librettist and director
• 1931 Harald Serafin, Austrian operetta singer
• 1940 Anthony Stephen Fauci, American immunologist
• 1941 Hans Eichel, German politician
• 1950 Urs Kliby, Swiss ventriloquist
• 1970 Christian von Boetticher, German politician

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „24. Dezember“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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