* Astronomy

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RE: December 25th

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Brumalia was an ancient Roman, winter solstice festival honouring Saturn and Ceres and Bacchus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brumalia

Malkh is a festival gifted to the Deela-Malkh in Vainakh mythology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malkh-Festival

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The Eggnog Riot took place at West Point Military Academy on 24-25 December 1826.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggnog_Riot

The Christmas truce was a unofficial ceasefires that took place around Christmas 1914
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce

The first time the swastika was used with an "Aryan" meaning was on December 25, 1907
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

The highest temperature ever recorded in the South Pole was -12.3 °C on the 25th December, 2011.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Antarctica

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The 1932 Changma earthquake occurred at 10:04:27 local time (02:04:07 UTC) on 25 December.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_Changma_earthquake

December 25, 1699: The first known written record of an earthquake felt in the New Madrid Seismic Zone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone#December_25.2C_1699

The Inverness-Shire Earthquake of December 25, 1946
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v159/n4045/abs/159648a0.html

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On Christmas Day 1950, a group of four Scottish students took the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_of_Scone#Removal_and_damage

1869 Saxby Gale: Lieutenant Stephen Martin Saxby wrote a letter of warning, published December 25, 1868
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1869_Saxby_Gale

The F-1 nuclear reactor achieved a self-sustaining chain reaction, on December 25, 1946.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46932852/f-1-nuclear-reactor/

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The Venera 11 lander made a soft landing on the surface of Venus at 03:24 UT on 25 December 1978
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_11#Lander

The unsuccessful Beagle 2 spacecraft was scheduled to enter the Martian atmosphere on the 25th December 2003
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t3197834/beagle-2-mars-probe/

Mars Express, Mars Orbit Insertion in 2003
http://esamultimedia.esa.int/multimedia/publications/BR-312/

On December 25, 2004, The Cassini Huygens Probe separated from the orbiter at approximately 02:00 UTC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens

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Michael Phillip Anderson (December 25, 1959 - February 1, 2003) was NASA astronaut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_P._Anderson

Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 - 20 March 1727) was an English physicist
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t33226012/sir-isaac-newton/

Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg (December 25, 1904 - March 3, 1999) was a pioneering physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Herzberg

William Gregor (25 December 1761 - 11 June 1817) was the British mineralogist who discovered the elemental metal titanium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gregor

Richard H. Hall (December 25, 1930 - July 17, 2009) was a leading Ufologist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_H._Hall

Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova (1935 - 2001) was a Russian astronomer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Mikhailovna_Smirnova

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Heinrich Erfle's wide-angle eyepiece was patented in the U.S. on December 25, 1923.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Erfle

Children of Men is a 2006 dystopian science fiction film loosely adapted from P. D. James's 1992 novel
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56039057/children-of-men/

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NGC 693 was discovered by William Herschel on the 25th December 1790.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56039221/ngc-693/

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GRB 101225A was first detected by NASA's Swift observatory on Christmas Day 2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRB_101225A

The predicted 1758 return of Halley's comet was 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley's_Comet#Computation_of_orbit