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==Events== * 502 – Chinese emperor Xiao Yan names Xiao Tong his heir designate. * 640 – Pope John IV is elected. * 759 – Tang dynasty poet Du Fu departs for Chengdu, where he is hosted by fellow poet Pei Di. *1144 – The capital of the crusader County of Edessa falls to Imad ad-Din Zengi, the atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo. *1294 – Pope Boniface VIII is elected, replacing St. Celestine V, who had resigned. *1500 – A joint Venetian–Spanish fleet captures the Castle of St. George on the island of Cephalonia. *1777 – Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook. *1800 – The Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise fails to kill Napoleon Bonaparte. *1814 – The Treaty of Ghent is signed ending the War of 1812. *1818 – The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria. *1826 – The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy begins that night, wrapping up the following morning. *1851 – Library of Congress burns. *1865 – The Ku Klux Klan is formed. *1871 – Aida opens in Cairo, Egypt. *1906 – Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech. *1911 – Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. *1913 – The Italian Hall disaster ("1913 Massacre") in Calumet, Michigan, results in the death of 73 Christmas party goers held by striking mine workers, including 59 children. *1914 – World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins. *1924 – Albania becomes a republic. *1929 – Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen. *1939 – World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace. *1941 – World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces. *1942 – World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers, Algeria. *1943 – World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is named Supreme Allied Commander for the Invasion of Normandy. *1951 – Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya. *1953 – Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people. *1955 – NORAD Tracks Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition. *1964 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong operatives bomb the Brinks Hotel in Saigon, South Vietnam to demonstrate they can strike an American installation in the heavily guarded capital. *1966 – A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129. *1968 – Apollo program: The crew of ''Apollo 8'' enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures. *1969 – Charles Manson is allowed to defend himself at the Tate–LaBianca murder trial. *1969 – The oil company Phillips Petroleum made the first oil discovery in the Norwegian sector of North Sea. *1969 – Nigerian troops capture Umuahia, the last Biafran capital before its dissolution became Owerri *1973 – District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government. *1974 – Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia. *1979 – The first European Ariane rocket is launched. *1980 – Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, an incident called "Britain's Roswell". *1994 – Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked on the ground at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers, Algeria. Over the course of three days three passengers are killed, as are all four terrorists. *1997 – The Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in Algeria kills 50–100 people. *1999 – Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India; aircraft eventually landed at Kandahar, Afghanistan. Ordeal ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (one passenger killed). *2000 – The Texas Seven hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is murdered during the robbery. *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. *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. *2008 – Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks on Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「December 24」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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