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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_25" title="December 25">December 25</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a></b> (Western Christianity; Gregorian calendar); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinnah%27s_Birthday" title="Jinnah's Birthday">Quaid-e-Azam Day</a></b> in Pakistan
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD_36" title="AD 36">AD 36</a> – After the death of Emperor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gongsun_Shu" title="Gongsun Shu">Gongsun Shu</a> of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengjia" title="Chengjia">Chengjia</a></b>, the empire was conquered by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_dynasty#Eastern_Han" title="Han dynasty">Eastern Han dynasty</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1758" title="1758">1758</a> – Based on predictions by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Halley" title="Edmond Halley">Edmond Halley</a> in 1705, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Palitzsch" title="Johann Georg Palitzsch">Johann Georg Palitzsch</a> observed a comet that was later named <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet" title="Halley's Comet">Halley's Comet</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927" title="1927">1927</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%E1%BB%87t_Nam_Qu%E1%BB%91c_D%C3%A2n_%C4%90%E1%BA%A3ng" title="Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng">Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng</a></b>, a revolutionary socialist political party that sought Vietnamese independence from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire" title="French colonial empire">French colonial rule</a>, was formed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoi" title="Hanoi">Hanoi</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968" title="1968">1968</a> – In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Nadu" title="Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a>, India, families of striking <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit" title="Dalit">Dalit</a> workers <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilvenmani_massacre" title="Kilvenmani massacre">were massacred</a></b> by a gang, allegedly led by their landlords.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000" title="2000">2000</a> – Russian president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> signed into law a bill officially adopting <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_anthem_of_Russia" title="National anthem of Russia">a new national anthem</a></b>, with music by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Vasilyevich_Alexandrov" title="Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov">Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov</a> originally composed for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Anthem_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="State Anthem of the Soviet Union">anthem of the Soviet Union</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makan_ibn_Kaki" title="Makan ibn Kaki">Makan ibn Kaki</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 940); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_E._Allender" title="Nina E. Allender">Nina E. Allender</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1873); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadiq_al-Mahdi" title="Sadiq al-Mahdi">Sadiq al-Mahdi</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1935); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pulman" title="John Pulman">John Pulman</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1998)</p>
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