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  • 24 Dec 2001

    Rudy Giuliani was named 'Person of the Year' by Time Magazine.

  • 24 Dec 2000

    The Texas Seven held up a sports store.

  • 24 Dec 1979

    USSR invades Afghanistan.

  • 24 Dec 1970

    Walt Disney's 'Aristocats' was released.

  • 24 Dec 1968

    The crew of NASA's Apollo 8 became the first humans to enter the Moon's orbit.

  • 24 Dec 1955

    NORAD's Santa tracking service begins.

  • 24 Dec 1951

    Libya gains independence from Italy.

  • 24 Dec 1914

    Unofficial ceasefires sprang up across World War I's Western Front.

  • 24 Dec 1868

    King George I established the Greek Presidential Guard as the royal escort.

  • 24 Dec 1865

    Several Confederate veterans formed the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee.

  • 24 Dec 1849

    The first great fire of early San Francisco started on the east side of the Plaza.

  • 24 Dec 1826

    Eggnog riots begin at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.

  • 24 Dec 1818

    The Christmas carol 'Silent Night' composed by Franz Xaver Gruber was first sung at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, Austria.

  • 24 Dec 1814

    The Treaty of Ghent was signed, which ended the War of 1812 between the US, the UK, and their allies.

  • 24 Dec 1800

    A plot to blow up Napoleon Bonaparte with a barrel of gunpowder failed.

  • 24 Dec 1777

    Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.

  • 24 Dec 1651

    Jan van Riebeeck departed for Cape of Good Hope to found the first permanent European settlement.