December 24th

The December 24th is the 358e Jour of the Année (359e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian calendar . There remain 7 days before the end of the year.

Events

562: Constantinople: The emperor Justinien, octogenarian, governs the new dedication of the masterpiece of his life, the basilica Holy-Sophie. The cupola, which had collapsed the May 7th 558, has just been rebuilt.
1165 : New the king d' Écosse Guillaume I {{er}} '' the Lion '', which succeeds his/her brother Malcolm (Máel Coluim) IV, is crowned with the Abbaye of Scone, in the Perthshire.
1294 : Election of Benedetto Caetani, which takes the name of pope Boniface VIII.
1539 : Stay of the emperor Charles Quint with the Castle of Fontainebleau, during its voyage in France (until the December 30th).
1588 : Assassination, with the Castle of Blois, the shortly after that of his/her brother the duke Henri of Lorraine, chief of the holy League, Louis II, Cardinal of Own way, archbishop-duke of Rheims of 1574 with 1588, on order of the King de France Henri III.
1747 : Bay shipwreck of Morlaix, the boat “Alcide”, corsair with Saint-Malo.
1770 : By laconic a ticket , Louis XV orders with the duke of Choiseul to be dislocated of all its loads and to be withdrawn on its tourangelles grounds of Chanteloup.
1773 : Ottoman Empire, Abdülhamid Ier succeeds his/her father Mustafa III.
1789 : With Paris, the Assemblée adopts a decree recognizing the Protestants suited to all civil and military employment. She also ensures to them the right of election and eligibility.
1794 :

Beginning of the negotiations between the France and the Prussia.
Paris, the Maximum is abolished.

1798 : The Great Britain and the Russia make alliance against the France
1800: the First Consul Bonaparte escapes an attack street Saint-Nicaise with Paris. (see repression éphéméride January 9th 1801)
1802: In France (3 nivôse), a stop organizes the creation of the chambers of commerce in twenty-two cities.
1805 : The painter David begins his monumental composition of the the Sacring of Napoleon .
1814 : to Ghent, signature of a peace treaty enters the England and the the United States.
1825 : In Russia, after having abdicated the September 13rd, thus opening a period of successional uncertainty, Alexandre Ier dies suddenly in Taganrog on February 1st. Nicolas Ier goes up on the throne only this day December 24th, the day before revolt decabrist.
1865 : Foundation of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
1866: The the Schleswig-Holstein is attached to the Prussia.
1871 : Cairo, to inaugurate the Opera of Cairo, Ismaël Pasha, khedive of Egypt, order a work with Made green: Helped.
1881 : Ngaliema De Swata sign the “treaty of the friendship” with Henry Morton Stanley, granting to him a right of establishment in the west of what will become Léopoldville finally Kinshasa.
1896 : Anatole France, writer between with the French Academy
1906: Since Brant Rock'n'roll , with the Massachusetts, the Canadian Reginald Aubrey Fessenden makes a success of the first radio operator transmission combining the voice and the music.
1914 :

Germany: 577.874 allied soldiers will pass Christmas in Germany.
Russia: 174.000 German soldiers are prisoners of the Russians.

1924 : The Republic is proclaimed in Albania
1937: The army Japan ease enters to Hang-Tchéou.
1941 : the Free French Army (FFL), opposed to the mode in title pro-Nazi, take the islands of Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon.
1942 :

the admiral François Darlan, dolphin apparent of Philippe Pétain, is assassinated with Algiers by Fernand Bonnier of the Vault.
the First launching of a rocket V2 since Peenemünde.

1951 :

a first opera made up for television is diffused by the night NBC, Amahl and Visitors ( Amahl and the Night Visitors ), of Gian Carlo Menotti.
the Libya becomes an independent federation.

1970 : to Leningrad, two Russians who had tried to hijack a plane are condemned to death.
1979 : The first launching of the European rocket ARIANE. The 1st commercial flight will take place later 4 years.
1986 : After those of Shanghai, students of Beijing more claim communist dictatorship democracy.
1988 : with Ottawa, the law of free trade with the the United States is adopted.
1989 : with Panama, the dictator and trafficker Manual Noriega, continued by American justice, takes refuge with nonciature of the the Vatican.
1990 : Loading with Toulon of 1st and 2nd squadrons of the Regiment of infantry-tanks of navy (RICM), first elements of the French Army leaving for Yambu, in Saudi Arabia, within the framework of the preparations of the War of the Gulf.
1994 : with Algiers, four islamist takes as an hostage the flight Vol AF 8969.
1997 : The terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as Carlos, is condemned to the life imprisonment with Paris.
1999 :

Jean Ier of Luxembourg announces in its radio-televised short speech of Christmas his Abdication for the following year.
in India, a Airbus of Indian Airlines ensuring the connection Katmandou - New Delhi is diverted by five terrorists.
in Ivory Coast, of the soldiers drives out the president Henri Konan Bédié.

2000 : Attacks against Christian churches, in Indonesia, make a score of deaths.
2006 : The Prime Minister Ethiopia N Meles Zenawi announced that its country had been in Guerre against the islamist Somalia NS officializing the intervention already in progress for several weeks.

Births

1166 : Jean of England (Jean without ground) future king of England († 1216).
1491 : Ignace de Loyola, founder of the Jesuits. († July 31st 1556)
1798: Adam Mickiewicz, poête Polish († November 26th 1855)
1822: Matthew Arnold, poet and critical British.
1851 : Edouard de Castelnau, general French († March 19th 1944).
1868 :

Scott Joplin, musician and American type-setter of ragtime († April 1st 1917).
Emmanuel Lasker, world champion of failures († 1941).

1887 : Louis Jouvet, director, actor of theater and cinema († August 16th 1951).
1891 : Virginia Dighero, centenary Italian († 2005)
1894: Georges Guynemer, fighter pilot of the First World War († 1917).
1900 : Joey Smallwood, politician and Prime Minister of Newfoundland of 1949 has 1971. († December 18th 1991)
1919: Pierre Soulages, painter specialist in the black-light , the to outrenoir .
1922 : Ava Gardner, American actress, it was called the most beautiful animal of the world . († January 25th 1990)
1927: Richard Highton, American zoologist .
1929 : Mary Higgins Clark, écrivaine American, specialized in the detective novel and the novel of suspense.
1931 : Mauricio Kagel, type-setter, leader and Argentinian director (but residing in Germany).
1943 : Tarja Halonen, political woman and Finnish president.
1957 : Diane Such, singer québecquoise.
1964 : Jean-Paul Civeyrac Realizer of films
1968: Helena Christensen, mannequin.
1971 : Ricky Martin, Porto Rican singer latino.
1981 : Dima Assessment, Russian singer.

Death

1069 : Godefroy II '' Bearded the '', basic duke and of High-Lotharingie. His/her son Godefroy III '' Uneven the '' succeeds to him.
1524 : Vasco de Gama, navigator Portuguese, it discovered the Route of the Indies (° towards 1469).
1588 : Louis II, Cardinal of Own way, archbishop-duke of Rheims of 1574 with 1588, assassinated with the Castle of Blois on order of the King de France Henri III.
1850 : Frederic Bastiat, French economist (° June 30th 1801)
1868: Adolphe d' Archiac, geologist and paleontologist French (° 1802).
1914 : John Muir, Naturalist and American writer (° 1838)
1935: Alban Berg, Austrian type-setter. (° February 9th 1885)
1966: Gaspar Cassadó, Violoncellist and Spanish Type-setter
1975: Jean De Bast, Belgian engraver of postage stamps (° 1883).
1976 : Jean de Broglie, Politician French, assassinated (° June 21st 1921).
1977 : Howard Hawks, American realizer of cinema (° 1896).
1980 : Karl Dönitz, admiral successor of Adolf Hitler at the end of the Second world war, it signed the act of unconditional surrender of the Third Reich (° 1891).
1982 :

Maurice Biraud, radio presenter and an actor French. (° March 3rd 1922)
Louis Aragon, poet and a novelist French. (° October 3rd 1897)

1985: Ferhat Abbas, Algerian politician (° October 24th 1899), president of the provisional government in 1962-1963 (° 1899).
1989 : Jean-Louis Calderon, journalist, with Bucharest during the revolution of Romania. (° April 19th 1958)
1990: Pierre Dagenais, actor Québécois. (° 1923)
1991: Walter Hudson, the man that the book of Records Guinness classified like the fourth heavier man in the world (543 kg)
1992: Pierre Culliford, alias Peyo, Drawing ator and Belgian Scenario writer of Cartoon, creator of the Schtroumpfs. (° June 25th 1928)
1994: John Osborne, British dramatic author, also scenario writer and actor. (° December 12th 1929)
1997: Toshiro Mifune, actor, producer and realizer Japanese. (° April 1st 1920)
1999: Maurice Broods of Murville, politician French (° January 24th 1907).
2005 : Wang Daohan (90 years), negotiator of the Popular republic of China at Taiwan.
2006 :

Jacques Crozemarie, founder of the ARC.
Uri Dan, journalist, writer and Israeli realizer . (° May 6th 1935).

Celebrations

Midnight supper of Christmas

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

Adele de Pfalzel (+ 735 to 740), girl of Dagobert II, founder of a monastery close to Trier.
Delphin of Bordeaux (+ 404), bishop of Bordeaux.

Catholic saints of the day

Holy Charbel Makhlouf, monk and hermit Lebanon board.

See too

December 24th in sport
December 24th in the railroads

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