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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_24" title="December 24">December 24</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/759" title="759">759</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_dynasty" title="Tang dynasty">Tang-dynasty</a> poet <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Fu" title="Du Fu">Du Fu</a></b> departed for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu" title="Chengdu">Chengdu</a>, where he lived for the next five years and composed poems about life in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Fu_Thatched_Cottage" title="Du Fu Thatched Cottage">his thatched cottage</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1814" title="1814">1814</a> – The United Kingdom and the United States signed <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Ghent" title="Treaty of Ghent">a peace treaty</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghent" title="Ghent">Ghent</a>, present-day Belgium, ending the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968" title="1968">1968</a> – Piloted by <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lovell" title="Jim Lovell">Jim Lovell</a></b>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8" title="Apollo 8">Apollo 8</a> became the first <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_spaceflight" title="Human spaceflight">human spaceflight</a> to reach and orbit the Moon.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973" title="1973">1973</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">U.S. Congress</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_home_rule" title="District of Columbia home rule">granted home rule</a></b> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>, allowing the residents to elect <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Washington,_D.C." title="List of mayors of Washington, D.C.">their own mayor</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_District_of_Columbia" title="Council of the District of Columbia">a city council</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983" title="1983">1983</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_601" title="Aeroflot Flight 601">Aeroflot Flight 601</a></b> crashed on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_approach" title="Final approach">approach</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leshukonskoye" title="Leshukonskoye">Leshukonskoye</a> in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_SSR" title="Russian SSR">Russian SSR</a>, killing 44 out of 49 people on board.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonaert_Bramer" title="Leonaert Bramer">Leonaert Bramer</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1596); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Warburton" title="William Warburton">William Warburton</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1698); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pernilla_Wahlgren" title="Pernilla Wahlgren">Pernilla Wahlgren</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1967)</p>
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