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Events on December 25

• 1066 The Norman duke William is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey in London following the conquest of England.
• 1356 In Metz, Emperor Charles IV proclaims the final chapters of the Golden Bull, which governs the coronation of Roman-German kings and emperors and establishes electoral privileges.
• 1492 The Santa Maria, Christopher Columbus's flagship, suffers a shipwreck off the island of Hispaniola. Part of the crew remains in the settlement of La Navidad, which was also built using remains of the ship.
• 1705 In the Sendling Christmas Massacre, more than 1,000 Bavarian rebels are massacred by Austrian occupation troops under Emperor Joseph I at Sendling after surrendering their weapons. This also subsequently brings an end to the democratic experiment of the Braunau Parliament.
• 1734 The first cantata of Bach's Christmas Oratorio is premiered in Leipzig.
• 1952 Northwest German Broadcasting begins regular television broadcasting.
• 1979 Soviet troops march into Afghanistan. They intend to aid the communist forces in the country in the civil war.
• 1989 In Romania, former president Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena are executed after the verdict of a military court following the revolution.
• 1989 Ode to Joy: Two days after the West Berlin performance, Leonard Bernstein also conducts Beethoven's 9th Symphony at the Schauspielhaus in East Berlin.
• 1990 The WorldWideWeb web browser, later renamed Nexus, communicates with a web server via the Internet for the first time.
• 2003 The ESA's Mars Express space probe reaches Mars as planned. The Beagle 2 lander is deployed, but no connection can be established.
• 2021 The James Webb Space Telescope, a joint project of NASA, ESA and CSA, is placed into a distant Earth orbit using an Ariane 5 launch vehicle.

Born on December 25

• 1872 Helena Rubinstein, US-American cosmetics entrepreneur
• 1881 Christian Hülsmeyer, German inventor and entrepreneur
• 1913 Henri Nannen, German publisher and publicist
• 1914 Konrad Georg, German theater and film actor
• 1933 Joachim Meisner, German priest, Bishop of Berlin, Archbishop of Cologne and cardinal
• 1954 Annie Lennox, British singer and songwriter
• 1961 Íngrid Betancourt, Colombian politician, kidnapping victim
• 1961 Stefan Ruzowitzky, Austrian film director
• 1971 Dido, British pop singer
• 1990 Ramona Bachmann, Swiss footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „25. Dezember“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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