Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 25
This is a list of selected December 25 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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December 25: Christmas (Gregorian Calendar); Quaid-e-Azam Day (Pakistan)
 The National Anthem of Russia |
- 1066 – William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey, completing the Norman Conquest, the last successful foreign conquest of England.
- 1643 – Captain William Mynors of the East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary, landed at an uninhabited island and named it Christmas Island.
- 1927 – The Vietnamese Nationalist Party, a revolutionary socialist political party that sought independence from French colonial rule in Vietnam, was formed in Hanoi.
- 1989 – Romanian Revolution: Dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena were condemned to death and executed under a wide range of charges.
- 2000 – Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law that officially established a new National Anthem of Russia (audio featured), with music adapted from the anthem of the Soviet Union that was composed by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov.