| Date | Holiday | Category | Tags |
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Christmas Eve December 24 | ||
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National Eggnog Day December 24 | ||
Also on December 24
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Christmas Eve (CZ,DK,FI,PH,PL,SE,VE) · Jouluaatto (FI) · Nochebuena (VE) · Pihenőnap (2026. 12. 12.-től helyettesítve) (HU) · Štědrý den (CZ) · Wigilia Bożego Narodzenia (PL)
✡️ Religious Observances
- Islamic: Urs of Sayyidina Jāfar as-Sādiq (ق) major
- Islamic: Urs of Zaynab bint Ali (ر) major
- Christian: Christmas Eve major
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2008 — Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks on Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400. ↗
- 2005 — Chad-Sudan relations: Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead. ↗
- 2003 — The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station. ↗
- 1999 — Indian Airlines Flight 814 is hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India. The aircraft landed at Kandahar in... ↗
- 1997 — The Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria kills between 50 and 100 people. ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1994 — Fa'amanu Brown, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1994 — Miguel Castro, Dominican baseball player
- 1991 — Lara Michel, Swiss tennis player
- 1991 — Wasim Tareen, Pakistani footballer
- 1991 — Louis Tomlinson, English singer-songwriter