Page 8: Historical Events In December - 25

1995  Dean Martin, singer/actor (Return to Me), dies at 78 on December - 25.   

2000  A bank machine in a supermarket in the town of Antibes France paid double the withdrawal amount while only recording the correct amount (Merry Christmas) on this day in history.   

2000  On this day in history a Christmas day fire killed 309 people at a dance hall in the central Chinese city of Luoyang   

2007  An escaped tiger at the San Francisco Zoo kills one person and injures two others on December - 25.   

2007  On this day in history an overcrowded suspension bridge collapsed near Nepalgunj, Nepal. At least 15 people are dead, with 100 to 200 missing.   

2007  On December - 25 queen Elizabeth II broadcasts her 50th televised Royal Christmas Message to the Commonwealth.   

2012  27 people are killed after an Antonov An-72 plane crashes near Shymkent, Kazakhstan on December - 25.   

2019  20 people are killed and thousands are left homeless by Typhoon Phanfone in the Philippines on December - 25.   

2021  On December - 25 nASA, ESA, the Canadian Space Agency and the Space Telescope Science Institute launch the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor of the Hubble Space Telescope.   

2024  Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243, an Embraer ERJ-190AR, crashes in Kazakhstan. Twenty-nine out of the 67 on board survive the crash on this day in history.   

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1250  On December - 25 birth of john IV Laskaris, Byzantine Emperor (d. circa 1305)   

1461  On this day in history birth of christina of Saxony, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1521)   

1583  Orlando Gibbons, English composer (O Clap Your Hands), baptized was born on this day in history.   

1587  Margarita of Austria, queen of Philip III of Spain (d. 1611) was born on this day in history.   

1601  On December - 25 birth of jose Ximenez, composer   

1624  On this day in history birth of angelus Silesius, [Johann Scheffler], German mystic (St Seelenlust)   

1628  On this day in history birth of noel Coypel, French painter   

1646  On this day in history birth of harald Vallerius, composer   

0795  Adrian I, Italian Pope (772-95), dies on December - 25.   

0820  Death of Leo V, the Armenian, Byzantine gen/Emperor (813-20), murdered on this day in history.   

1156  On December - 25 peter Venerabilis, Fr theologist/9th abbot of Cluny, dies at about 61   

1249  Peter Nolascus, Spanish monastery founder/St, dies on December - 25.   

1513  Johannes Amerbach, Swiss publisher/printer, dies at about 70 on December - 25.   

1530  Babur, emperor of Delhi, dies on this day in history.   

1635  Death of Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec City (b. 1567) on December - 25.   

1676  Death of Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1609) on December - 25.