24 December

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The 24t o December is the 358t day o the year (359t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 7 days bidin.

Events

1717 - The North Sea Christenmas flood kills 11,500 fowk.
1726 - Montevideo, caipital ceety o Uruguay, is foondit.
1777 - James Cook reaches Kiritimati (cried Christenmas Island an aa) in the Line Islands in present-day Kiribati, Pacific Ocean.
1818 - The Silent Nicht Christenmas carol is first performed in Austrick.
1865 - The Ku Klux Klan is foondit.
1914 - The Christenmas Truce occurs during Warld War I.
1924 - Albanie becomes a republic.
1951 - Libie gains unthirldom frae Italy.
1953 - 153 fowk are kilt in the Tangiwai rail disaster in New Zealand.
1954 - Laos is declarit independent.
1968 - The crew o Apollo 8 taks a photograph o the yird.
1974 - Cyclone Tracy sweeps across the ceety o Darwin, Northren Territory, Australie.
1979 - The first European-biggit rocket, Ariane, is launched frae French Guiana.
1997 - Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal is sentencit tae 20 year in gaol bi a coort in Paris.
2013 - Queen Elizabeth II pardons Alan Turing, who had been convictit o homosexuality when it was still illegal in the Unitit Kinrick.
2017 - Alberto Fujimori, umwhile Preses o Peru, is pardoned on heal groonds.
2017 - Guatemala propales its plan tae muive its Embassy in Israel frae Tel Aviv tae Jerusalem.
2018 - The govrenment o Burundi decides tae muive the kintra's caipital frae Bujumbura tae Gitenga.

3 BC - Galba, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1166 - John, Keeng o Ingland (d. 1216)
1761 - Selim III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1808)
1786 - Gregor MacGregor, Scots sodger, adventurer an confidence trickster (d. 1845)
1798 - Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (d. 1855)
1818 - James Prescott Joule, Inglis pheesicist (d. 1889)
1837 - Empress Elisabeth o Austrick (d. 1898)
1843 - Lydia Koidula, Estonie poet (d. 1886)
1845 - King George I o Greece (d. 1913)
1868 - Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (d. 1941)
1905 - Howard Hughes, American business tycoon an aviator (d. 1976)
1927 - Mary Higgins Clark, American writer (d. 2020)
1938 - Philippe Nahon, French actor (d. 2020)
1943 - Tarja Halonen, umwhile Preses o Finland
1945 - Lemmy Kilmister, Inglis muisicker (Motörhead) (d. 2015)
1946 - Jeff Sessions, 84t Unitit States Attorney General
1957 - Hamid Karzai, umwhile Preses o Afghanistan
1958 - Philippa Whitford, Scots surgeon an politeecian
1961 - Ilham Aliyev, Preses o Azerbaijan
1962 - Kate Spade, American fashion designer (d. 2018)
1969 - Ed Miliband, Inglis politeecian
1971 - Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican sangster an actor
1973 - Stephenie Meyer, American author
1974 - Marcelo Salas, Chilean fitbawer
1981 - Dima Bilan, Roushie sangster