Wednesday December 24, 2025
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

is the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are until the end of the year. The day of the week is .

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, months, and days ago
  • months since then
  • is in the nd week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is not a leap year

Historical Event(s)

1294
Pope Boniface VIII is elected Pope, replacing St. Celestine V, who had resigned.
The first performance of “Silent Night” takes place in the church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.
World War I: The “Christmas truce” begins.
Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.
World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers.
Tangiwai disaster: A railway bridge is destroyed by a lahar at Tangiwai, in the Central North Island of New Zealand, sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River, and killing 153 people.
Apollo Program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed 10 lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures that became the famous Christmas Eve Broadcast, one of the most watched programs in history.
Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, an incident called “Britain’s Roswell”.
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.

Who were born on ?

Benjamin Rush, doctor and Founding Father of the United States (d. 1813)
Matthew Arnold, British poet (d. 1888)
E. Roland Harriman, American financier (d. 1978)
Franz Waxman, German film composer (d. 1967)
Norman Rossington, British actor (d. 1999)
Paul Buissonneau, French-born Quebec theatre director
Mary Higgins Clark, American author
Robert Joffrey, American choreographer (d. 1988)
Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer (d. 2008)
Mikhail Shchennikov, Russian race walker

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