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Christmas December 25 | ||
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Twelve Days Of Christmas December 25 | ||
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National Pumpkin Pie Day December 25 | ||
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Taiwan Christmas December 25 | ||
Also on December 25
🏛️ Public Holidays
US: Christmas Day
Also observed in: Navidad (AR,CL,CO,MX) · 1. svátek vánoční (CZ) · Boże Narodzenie (pierwszy dzień) (PL) · Christmas (IN) · Christtag (AT) · Dia de Natal (PT) · Día de Navidad (VE) · Eerste Kerstdag (NL) · Erster Weihnachtstag (DE) · Første juledag (NO) and 18 more
✡️ Religious Observances
- Christian: Christmas major
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2012 — An Antonov An-72 plane crashes close to the city of Shymkent, killing 27 people. ↗
- 2004 — The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005. ↗
- 2003 — UTAGE Flight 141, a Boeing 727-223, crashes at the Cotonou Airport in Benin, killing 151 people. ↗
- 2003 — The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, stops transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing. ↗
- 1991 — Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is... ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1993 — Ariadna Gutiérrez, Colombian Model
- 1992 — Mitakeumi Hisashi, Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1990 — Conny Perrin, Swiss tennis player
- 1989 — Djameleddine Benlamri, Algerian footballer
- 1989 — Adrian von Ziegler, Swiss composer and producer