{"id":23355,"date":"2023-12-24T04:23:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T22:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23355"},"modified":"2023-12-15T15:33:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T10:03:09","slug":"history-of-24-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-24-december\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 24 December"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1990 &#8211; Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were married.<\/li>\r\n<li>1992 &#8211;\u00a0U.S. President George H.W. Bush\u00a0pardoned former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five others in the Iran-Contra scandal.<\/li>\r\n<li>1997 &#8211; Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as &#8220;Carlos the Jackal,&#8221; was sentenced by a French court to life in prison for the 1975 murders of two French investigators and a Lebanese national.<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 &#8211; At Disneyland in Anaheim,\u00a0CA, a tourist was hit by a piece of flying metal while waiting to board a ride. The man&#8217;s wife and a Disneyland employee were also injured. Luan Phi Dawson died December 26th from his injuries.<\/li>\r\n<li>1999 &#8211; Ivory Coast President Henri Konan B\u00e9di\u00e9 was overthrown in a coup.<\/li>\r\n<li>1999 &#8211; An Indian Airlines plane was seized during a flight from Katmandu, Nepal, to New Delhi. In Afghanistan, the 150 hostages were freed on December 31 after India released three Kashmir militants from prison.<\/li>\r\n<li>2000 &#8211; 36 minutes after the end of a game, both the\u00a0New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins\u00a0were called back to the playing field. The teams had to play the final 3 seconds of the game which the Dolphins had won 27-24. The end result did not change.<\/li>\r\n<li>2000 &#8211; The\u00a0&#8220;Texas 7,&#8221;\u00a0seven convicts that had escaped a Texas prison, robbed a sports store in Irving,\u00a0TX. The suspects killed Officer Aubrey Hawkins, stole $70,000, 25 weapons and clothing. The men had escaped on December 13.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>2003\u00a0\u2013 The Spanish police thwart an attempt by\u00a0ETA\u00a0to detonate 50\u00a0kg of\u00a0explosives\u00a0at 3:55\u00a0p.m. inside\u00a0Madrid&#8217;s busy\u00a0Chamart\u00edn Station.<\/li>\r\n<li>2005\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Chad\u2013Sudan relations:\u00a0Chad\u00a0declares a\u00a0state of war\u00a0against\u00a0Sudan\u00a0following a\u00a0December 18\u00a0attack on Adr\u00e9, which left about 100 people dead.<\/li>\r\n<li>2008\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army, a\u00a0Ugandan\u00a0rebel group, begins a\u00a0series of attacks\u00a0against civilians in the\u00a0Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400.<\/li>\r\n<li>2018\u00a0\u2013 A helicopter crash kills\u00a0Martha \u00c9rika Alonso, first female\u00a0Governor of Puebla, Mexico, and her husband\u00a0Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, former governor.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/December_24#cite_note-van-3\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1981\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dima Bilan, Russian singer-songwriter and actor<\/li>\r\n<li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Isaac De Gois, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\r\n<li>1985\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Alexey Dmitriev, German ice hockey player<\/li>\r\n<li>1985 \u2013\u00a0David Ragan, American race car driver<\/li>\r\n<li>1986\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Tim Elliott, American mixed martial artist<\/li>\r\n<li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Kyrylo Fesenko, Ukrainian basketball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1987\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jane Summersett, American ice dancer<\/li>\r\n<li>1988\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Stefanos Athanasiadis, Greek footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Emre \u00d6zkan, Turkish footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Simon Zenke, Nigerian footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1990\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Brigetta Barrett, American high jumper<\/li>\r\n<li>1990 \u2013\u00a0Marcus Jordan, American basketball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1990 \u2013\u00a0Ryo Miyake, Japanese fencer<\/li>\r\n<li>1991\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Lara Michel, Swiss tennis player<\/li>\r\n<li>1991 \u2013\u00a0Louis Tomlinson, English singer-songwriter<\/li>\r\n<li>1994\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Fa&#8217;amanu Brown, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 \u2013\u00a0Miguel Castro, Dominican baseball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 \u2013\u00a0Matt Frawley, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1990 &#8211; Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were married. 1992 &#8211;\u00a0U.S. President George H.W. 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