WHAT HAPPENED ON 25. DECEMBER
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The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy concludes after beginning the previous evening. (25. December 1826)

Second Seminole War: American general Zachary Taylor leads 1100 troops against the Seminoles at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee. (25. December 1837)

U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers. (25. December 1868)

Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito, succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa. (25. December 1926)

The Vietnamese Nationalist Party is founded. (25. December 1927)

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people. (25. December 1932)

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet (25. December 1941)

World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. (25. December 1941)

Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces. (25. December 1941)

The first in Europe artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within Soviet nuclear reactor F-1. (25. December 1946)

The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect. (25. December 1947)

The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951. (25. December 1950)

Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. (25. December 1963)

The Yemeni Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Ta'izz (25. December 1965)

Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit. (25. December 1968)

42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers. (25. December 1968)

Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia. (25. December 1974)

Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff. (25. December 1974)

Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with its president Anwar Sadat. (25. December 1977)

Deposed President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, First-Deputy Prime-Minister Elena Ceaușescu are condemned to death and executed after a summary trial. (25. December 1989)