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December 25: Christmas (Western Christianity; Gregorian calendar); Quaid-e-Azam Day in Pakistan. Halley's Comet. AD 36 – After the death of Emperor Gongsun Shu of Chengjia, the empire was conquered by the Eastern Han dynasty. 1758 – Based on predictions by Edmond Halley in 1705, Johann Georg Palitzsch observed a comet that was later named ...
Rip Torn (cousin) Mary Elizabeth " Sissy " Spacek ( / ˈspeɪsɛk /; born December 25, 1949) is an American actress. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for four BAFTA Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award.
[25] Richie Kavanagh (born 1949), Irish singer. [26] Billy Kennedy (born 1964), American basketball coach. [27] Jansher Khan (born 1969), Pakistani squash player. [28] Michael Kinsley (born 1951), American journalist and commentator. [29] Steve Ludzik (born 1961), Canadian ice hockey player and coach. [30] Dean Malenko (born 1960), American ...
Isaac Newton was born (according to the Julian calendar in use in England at the time) on Christmas Day, 25 December 1642 (NS 4 January 1643 [a]) at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. [17] His father, also named Isaac Newton, had died three months before.
1927 – B. R. Ambedkar and his followers burn copies of the Manusmriti in Mahad, Maharashtra, to protest its treatment of Dalit people. [30] 1932 – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people. [31] 1941 – Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, appointed commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet on December 17, [32] arrives at Pearl Harbor. [33]
One of the best known images of London during the war was a photograph of St Paul's taken on 29 December 1940 during the "Second Great Fire of London" by photographer Herbert Mason, [b] from the roof of a building in Tudor Street showing the cathedral shrouded in smoke. Lisa Jardine of Queen Mary, University of London, has written: [46]
Anthony Roddy. Anthony "Silverback" Roddy is a retired USDA Forest Service worker who, at age 56, walked from Wells Beach, Maine, to Imperial Beach, California, between April 19 and December 15, 2015. A US Army veteran of the war in Iraq, he crossed 13 states in 244 days, walking approximately 3,073 miles.
One day during the Late Jurassic period, a stegosaurus standing some 11 feet tall and stretching an incredible 27 feet long died on a piece of land that would one day become Colorado. Some 150 ...