24 December - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, on December 24, the day number in a year is 358 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 359. December 24 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
December 24 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 759 | Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu departed for Chengdu, staying with his fellow poets Pei Di, where he composed poems about life in his thatched cottage. |
| 1294 | Boniface VIII began his papacy, replacing St. Celestine V, who had declared that it was permissible for a Pope to resign, and then promptly did so. |
| 1524 | Portuguese sailor and explorer Vasco di Gama died in Kochi. |
| 1715 | Sweden's army captured Norway. |
| 1726 | The city of Montevideo was founded by the Spaniards. |
| 1777 | An expedition led by English explorer James Cook reaches Christmas Island, the largest coral atoll in the world. |
| 1777 | Captain James Cook discovered Kirimati Christmas Island). |
| 1798 | Russia and Britain signed the second anti-French alliance. |
| 1818 | Silent Night a Christmas carol by Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber, was first performed in a church in Austria. |
| 1865 | Six Confederate veterans of the American Civil War founded the Ku Klux Klan, which would later become a white supremacist group. |
| 1894 | The first medical conference was held in Calcutta. |
| 1906 | Reginald A Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over the radio (Mass). |
| 1912 | Irving Fisher patented the collection system through \ index cadres \. |
| 1913 | Seventy-three people were crushed to death in a stampede after someone falsely yelled 'fire' at a crowded Christmas party in Calumet, Michigan, USA. |
| 1914 | British and German soldiers interrupted the First World War to celebrate Christmas, beginning the Christmas truce. |
| 1921 | Rabindranath Tagore established Visva Bharati University in Shanti Niketan. |
| 1924 | 8 people were killed in a plane crash at Croydon Airfield, London. |
| 1932 | England great batsman Colin Cowdrey was born in the city of Bangalore, India. He was the first cricketer in the world to play 100 Tests. He played a total of 114 Tests. |
| 1936 | For the first time, John Lawrence used radioactive isotope medication on the patient. |
| 1953 | On New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge was damaged by a lahar and collapsed beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people. |
| 1954 | Laos was liberated by France. |
| 1955 | The NORAD Tracks Santa program began when children began calling the Continental Air Defense Command Center to inquire about Santa Claus' whereabouts due to a misprint phone number. |
| 1956 | Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor was born. |
| 1964 | Bombing at the Brinds Hotel in Saigon. |
| 1966 | "Joyful Noise" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 12 performances. |
| 1968 | Astronaut William Anders of the NASA Apollo 8 mission, the first manned voyage to orbit the Moon, took the famous photograph known as 'Earthrise' showing the Earth rising above the lunar surface. |
| 1971 | Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later. |
| 1973 | The United States Congress granted Washington, D.C. home rule, allowing the residents to elect their own mayor and city council. |
| 1973 | EV Ramaswamy Naikar died in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. |
| 1973 | Mohammad Mohammedullah became the acting president of Bangladesh. |
| 1979 | The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. The attack was carried out on the pretext of the 1978 Soviet Afghan Friendship Treaty. |
| 1979 | The first European Ariane rocket was launched. |
| 1980 | Witnesses reported the first of several sightings of unexplained lights in the sky near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, an incident called 'Britain's Roswell'. |
| 1982 | Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic. |
| 1989 | The country's first amusement park Accel World opened in Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra. |
| 1990 | Ramsevak Shankar was removed as Suriname's President by a military coup. |
| 2000 | Renowned chess player Vishwanathan Anand became world champion. |
| 2008 | The Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, began attacks on several villages in Haut-Uele District, Democratic Republic Of the Congo, resulting in at least 400 deaths and numerous atrocities. |
| 2011 | The world's oldest performer, Dutch actor and singer Johannes Heesters dies at the age of 108. |
| 2011 | The Cuban government announced the release of 2900 prisoners. |
| 2012 | Pakistan's government announces it will accord recognition to the Republic of Kosovo. |
| 2012 | A video of SpaceX's latest test of the company's Grasshopper rocket with vertical takeoff and vertical landing is released; the rocket rose 131 feet, hovered and landed safely on the landing pad December 17, 2012. |
| 2013 | To avoid Obamacare penalties, today is the last day consumers in the U.S. can sign up for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. |
| 2013 | Before celebrating Christmas Mass at Pope Francis pays a visit to Pope Benedict XVI at his retirement home. |
| 2014 | A live Ebola sample is mistakenly sent to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control laboratory that does not meet safety and security standards for handling the virus; a laboratory work is being monitored for 21 days due to potential exposure. |
Famous Birthdays of December 24:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1818 | James Prescott Joule / Physicist / United Kingdom |
| 1953 | Timothy Carhart / Actor / United States of America |
| 1969 | Brad Anderson / Wrestler / United States of America |
| 1924 | Abdirizak Haji Hussein / Politician / Mali |
| 1943 | Tarja Halonen / Politician / Finland |
| 1941 | Mike Hazlewood / Writer / United Kingdom |
| 1867 | Tevfik Fikret / Poet / Turkey |
| 1954 | Helen Jones / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1905 | Howard Hughes / Business Man / United States of America |
| 1881 | Charles Wakefield Cadman / Composer / United States of America |
| 1895 | E. Roland Harriman / Financier / United States of America |
| 1938 | Bobby Henrich / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1929 | Philip Ziegler / Author / United Kingdom |
| 1937 | John Taylor / Politician / Ireland |
| 1897 | Väinö Sipilä / Runner / Finland |
| 1877 | Sigrid Schauman / Painter / Finland |
| 1810 | Wilhelm Marstrand / Painter / Denmark |
| 1931 | Ray Bryant / Composer / United States of America |
| 1895 | Marguerite Williams / Geologist / United States of America |
| 1938 | Valentim Loureiro / Politician / Portugal |
| 1963 | Timo Jutila / Ice Hockey Player / Finland |
| 1946 | Jeff Sessions / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 1914 | Ralph Marterie / Trumpet Player / Italy |
| 1980 | Maarja Liis-Ilus / Musician / Estonia |
| 1922 | Ava Gardner / Actress / United States of America |
| 1949 | Warwick Brown / Racing Car Driver / Australia |
| 1894 | Jack Thayer / Business Man / United States of America |
| 1969 | Taro Goto / Footballer / Japan |
| 1880 | Johnny Gruelle / Author / United States of America |
| 1976 | Linda Ferga / Hurdler / France |
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Read in Hindi : 24 दिसम्बर की प्रमुख ऐतिहासिक घटनाएं