{"id":23357,"date":"2023-12-25T05:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23357"},"modified":"2023-12-15T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T10:04:09","slug":"history-of-25-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-25-december\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 25 December"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1991 &#8211; Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television to announce his resignation as leader of a Communist superpower that had already gone out of existence.<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 &#8211; Seven days into their journey, Richard Branson, Steve Fossett and Per Lindstrand of Sweden gave up their attempt to make the first nonstop round-the-world balloon flight. They ditched near\u00a0Hawaii.<\/li>\r\n<li>2000 &#8211; Over 300 people were killed and dozens were injured by fire at a Christmas party in the Chinese city of Luoyang. The incident occurred at the Dongdu Disco.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>2003\u00a0\u2013\u00a0UTAGE Flight 141, a\u00a0Boeing 727-223, crashes at the\u00a0Cotonou Airport\u00a0in\u00a0Benin, killing 141 people.<\/li>\r\n<li>2003 \u2013 The ill-fated\u00a0<em>Beagle 2<\/em>\u00a0probe, released from the\u00a0Mars Express\u00a0spacecraft on\u00a0December 19, stops transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing.<\/li>\r\n<li>2004\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Cassini orbiter\u00a0releases\u00a0Huygens probe\u00a0which successfully landed on\u00a0Saturn&#8217;s moon\u00a0Titan\u00a0on January 14, 2005.<\/li>\r\n<li>2012\u00a0\u2013 An\u00a0Antonov An-72\u00a0plane\u00a0crashes\u00a0close to the city of\u00a0Shymkent, killing 27 people.<\/li>\r\n<li>2016\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0Russian Defence Ministry\u00a0Tupolev Tu-154\u00a0carrying members of the\u00a0Alexandrov Ensemble\u00a0crashes\u00a0into the\u00a0Black Sea\u00a0shortly after takeoff, killing all 92 people on board.<\/li>\r\n<li>2019\u00a0\u2013 Twenty people are killed and thousands are left homeless by\u00a0Typhoon Phanfone\u00a0in the\u00a0Philippines.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/December_25#cite_note-8\">[<\/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\u00a0Trenesha Biggers, American wrestler and model<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Christian Holst, Danish-Faroese footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Willy Taveras, Dominican baseball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1982\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Shawn Andrews, American football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Rob Edwards, Welsh footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Ethan Kath, Canadian keyboard player, songwriter and producer<\/li>\r\n<li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Chris Rene, American singer-songwriter and producer<\/li>\r\n<li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Chris Cahill, Samoan footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Alastair Cook, English cricketer<\/li>\r\n<li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Jessica Origliasso, Australian singer, actress, and fashion designer<\/li>\r\n<li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Lisa Origliasso, Australian singer, actress, and fashion designer<\/li>\r\n<li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Chris Richard, American basketball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1985\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Martin Mathathi, Kenyan runner<\/li>\r\n<li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Rusev, Bulgarian-American professional wrestler<\/li>\r\n<li>1987\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ceyhun G\u00fclselam, Turkish footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1987 \u2013 Demaryius Thomas, American football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1988 \u2013 Jo\u00e3ozinho, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1988 \u2013 Eric Gordon, American basketball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1988 \u2013 Lukas Hinds-Johnson, German rugby player<\/li>\r\n<li>1992 \u2013 Mitakeumi Hisashi, Japanese sumo wrestler<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1991 &#8211; Soviet President Mikhail S. 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