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Events

• 350 (1676 years ago) Vetranio meets Constantius II at Naissus (Serbia) and is forced to abdicate his imperial title. Constantius allows him to live as a private citizen on a state pension.
• 1066 (960 years ago) William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.
• 1492 (534 years ago) The carrack Santa María, commanded by Christopher Columbus, runs onto a reef off Haiti due to an improper watch.
• 1553 (473 years ago) Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeat the Spanish conquistadors and executes the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia.
• 1963 (63 years ago) Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
• 1968 (58 years ago) Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
• 2003 (23 years ago) UTA Flight 141, a Boeing 727-223, crashes at the Cotonou Airport in Benin, killing 141 people.
• 2019 (7 years ago) Twenty people are killed and thousands are left homeless by Typhoon Phanfone in the Philippines.

Births

• 1642 (384 years ago) Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician (died 1727)
• 1717 (309 years ago) Pope Pius VI,
• 1876 (150 years ago) Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Pakistan (died 1948)
• 1899 (127 years ago) Humphrey Bogart, American actor (died 1957)
• 1916 (110 years ago) Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian soldier and politician, 1st President of Algeria (died 2012)
• 1924 (102 years ago) Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indian poet and politician, 10th Prime Minister of India (died 2018)
• 1949 (77 years ago) Nawaz Sharif, Pakistani politician, 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan
• 1971 (55 years ago) Justin Trudeau, Canadian educator and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada

Deaths

• 1938 (88 years ago) Karel Čapek, Czech author and playwright (born 1890)
• 1963 (63 years ago) Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet, playwright, painter, and critic (born 1896)
• 1973 (53 years ago) İsmet İnönü, Turkish general and politician, 2nd President of Turkey (born 1884)
• 1977 (49 years ago) Charlie Chaplin, English actor and director (born 1889)
• 1983 (43 years ago) Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (born 1893)
• 1989 (37 years ago) Nicolae Ceaușescu, Romanian general and politician, 1st President of Romania (born 1918)
• 2006 (20 years ago) James Brown, American singer-songwriter (born 1933)
• 2016 (10 years ago) George Michael, British singer and songwriter (born 1963)

All 432 events, births and deaths of December 25