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December 25
What happened on this day
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Christmas Day
Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus, widely observed as a cultural and family holiday.
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Gorbachev resigns
35 years ago
The Soviet president resigns on television in 1991 and hands over the nuclear codes; the red flag comes down over the Kremlin that evening.
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Isaac Newton born
384 years ago
Isaac Newton is born on Christmas Day 1642 by the Julian calendar then used in England.
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Cyclone Tracy hits Darwin
52 years ago
The cyclone crosses Darwin in the early hours of Christmas morning in 1974, killing 66 people and leaving most of the city uninhabitable.
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