It happened on this day, December 25
Events:
1100 – Baldwin of Poland is crowned the first king of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity.
1914 German and British forces on the Western Front temporarily cease fire during World War I in an armistice known as the Christmas Truce.
1926 – Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan after the death of Emperor Taishō's mother. Ch
1952 – Queen Elizabeth II makes her first Christmas speech since ascending the throne.
1977 – Menachem Begin visits Egypt and meets with President Mohamed Anwar Sadat in Cairo.
1986 – Iraqi Airways Flight 163 taking off from Amman to Baghdad is hijacked and crashes near the town of Arar in northern Saudi Arabia.
1989 Execution of former Romanian President Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife after a secret military tribunal found them guilty of war crimes.
1990 – First successful experiment in operating a web system which becomes the World Wide Web.
1991 – A referendum in Ukraine to secede from the Soviet Union, and the majority accepts secession.
⭐ Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union.
2008 – An Israeli court sentences Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Secretary General Ahmed Saadat to 30 years in prison for planning the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi.
2009 – The film Three Idiots was released, winning numerous awards, breaking world records and entering the Guinness Book of Records.
⭐ Omar Farouk Abdul Muttalib fails to carry out a terrorist attack against the United States while on a plane to Detroit Airport.
2011 – The Sudanese army kills Khalil Ibrahim, leader of the Justice and Equality rebel movement in Darfur.
2015 – Muhammad Zahran Alloush, leader of Jaysh al-Islam, one of Syria's armed opposition factions, was killed in an airstrike.
2016 – A Russian military plane, a Tupolev Tu-154, carrying 92 people bound for Syria, crashed, killing everyone on board.
2017 – Typhoon Tempin sweeps through the southern Philippines, killing an estimated 266 people and leaving dozens more missing.
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Births:
1642 – Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist, founder of mechanics.
1866 – Max Wien, German physicist.
1869 – Shakib Arslan, Lebanese writer, writer and thinker.
1876 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, President of Pakistan.
1878 – Louis Chevrolet, engineer and founder of the Chevrolet company.
1895 – Farid Tlai', Lebanese doctor and soldier.
1913 – Mimi Shakib, Egyptian actress.
1916 – Ahmed Ben Bella, first president of the Algerian Republic.
1918 – Muhammad Anwar Sadat, third president of the Arab Republic of Egypt, wins the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978.
1926 – Badr Shaker Al-Sayyab, Iraqi poet.
1930 – Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet.
** Sami Sarhan, Egyptian actor.
1931 – Naima Al-Saghir, Egyptian actress.
** Adel Khairy, Egyptian actor.
1935 – Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi, Prime Minister of Sudan.
** Samira Tawfiq, Lebanese singer.
1943 – Hamouda Zaloum, Jordanian-Palestinian writer and poet.
1944 – Jarzinho, Brazilian footballer.
1948 – Queen Alia Al Hussein, wife of Hussein bin Talal, King of Jordan.
1949 – Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1958 – Demi Mint Abba, Mauritanian singer.
1959 – Muhammad Hassan Al-Amiri, Jordanian poet, art critic and painter.
1960 – Sherif Arafa, Egyptian director.
1963 – Basema Hamada, Kuwaiti actress.
1974 – Ghada Adel, Egyptian actress. ** Nagma, Indian actress.
1980 – Yasa, Kuwaiti actress.
1985 – Hana Shiha, Egyptian actress.
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Death:
1925 – Hassan Al-Kharrat, one of the leaders of the Syrian revolution against French colonialism.
1965 – Mary Ajami, Syrian poet and journalist, founder of the first women's magazine in Syria.
1973 – Ismet Inönü, President of Turkey.
1974 – Marshal. Ahmed Ismail Ali, Egyptian Minister of Defense.
1978 – Saqr Al-Rushoud, Kuwaiti theater director.
1989 – Nicolae Ceaușescu, first president of Romania.
2009 – Anis Sayegh, Palestinian writer and thinker.
2010 – Carlos Andrés Pérez, fifty-sixth and fifty-ninth president of Venezuela.
2011 – Khalil Ibrahim, leader of the Justice and Equality rebel movement in Darfur.
2012 – Prince Turki bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
2015 – Muhammad Zahran Alloush, Commander of the Army of Islam.
2017 – Salah Issa, Egyptian journalist and historian.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Christmas in Western Christian denominations.
⏪ Birthday of the “sun god Sol Invictus” among the pagans of the Roman Empire.
⏪ Constitution Day in the People's Republic of China.
⏪ Quaid-e-Azam Day in Pakistan.
