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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/1066" title="1066">1066</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Conquest" title="Norman Conquest">Norman Conquest</a>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror" title="William the Conqueror">William the Conqueror</a></b> was crowned <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_monarchs" title="List of English monarchs">King of England</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a>, but continued to face rebellions over the following years and was not secure on the throne until after 1072.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1100" title="1100">1100</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_I_of_Jerusalem" title="Baldwin I of Jerusalem">Baldwin I</a></b> was crowned the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Jerusalem" title="King of Jerusalem">king of Jerusalem</a> <i>(depicted)</i> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Nativity" title="Church of the Nativity">Church of the Nativity</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem" title="Bethlehem">Bethlehem</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1809" title="1809">1809</a> – American physician <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_McDowell" title="Ephraim McDowell">Ephraim McDowell</a></b> performed the world's first removal of an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovarian_tumor" title="Ovarian tumor">ovarian tumor</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989" title="1989">1989</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Revolution" title="Romanian Revolution">Romanian Revolution</a>: Communist dictator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu" title="Nicolae Ceaușescu">Nicolae Ceaușescu</a> and his wife <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Ceau%C8%99escu" title="Elena Ceaușescu">Elena</a> were <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_and_execution_of_Nicolae_and_Elena_Ceau%C8%99escu" title="Trial and execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu">condemned to death on a wide range of charges and executed</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009" title="2009">2009</a> – A fire destroyed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longford" title="Longford">Longford</a>'s 19th-century <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mel%27s_Cathedral" title="St Mel's Cathedral">St Mel's Cathedral</a></b>, considered the "flagship cathedral" of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_Region,_Ireland" title="Midland Region, Ireland">Irish midlands</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Frederick_Hunziker" title="Otto Frederick Hunziker">Otto Frederick Hunziker</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1873); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Koval" title="George Koval">George Koval</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1913); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Mir%C3%B3" title="Joan Miró">Joan Miró</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1983)</p>
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