On December 24, 1906, the Canadian professor Reginald Aubrey Fessenden performed at night (Christmas Eve) the first radio broadcast, in which his voice is heard reading one of the passages from the Bible and the song O Holy Night (Silent Night), performed by him with a violin, on some ships sailing near the island of Newfoundland.

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OTHER ANIMALS

  • 1726.- Mauricio de Zabala founded the city of San Felipe and Santiago de Montevideo.
  • 1777.- The English captain James Cook discovers the Kiritimati island in the Pacific Ocean, known as Christmas.
  • 1800.- Napoleon Bonaparte emerges unharmed from an attack in Paris.
  • 1807.- Santiago Liniers is ratified as viceroy of Río de la Plata and receives the title of Count of Buenos Aires.
  • 1821.- The Argentine House of Representatives abolishes the old councils, an institution that had existed since the time of Spanish domination, and replaced them with lawyers, justices of the peace and judges of first instance.
  • 1871.- World premiere in Cairo of Verdi’s opera “Aida” on the occasion of the inauguration of the Suez Canal.
  • 1926.- American troops invade Nicaragua.
  • 1946.- Premiere in Los Angeles of Frank Capra’s film “It’s a Wonderful Life” starring Janes Stewart.
  • 1951.- Libya, a former Italian colony, is declared an independent nation, with a monarchical regime.
  • 1968.- First Christmas greeting from space transmitted from Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the Moon.
  • 1990.- Military coup in Suriname against President Ransewak Shankar.
  • 1991.- Russia becomes a permanent member of the UN Security Council, replacing the USSR.
  • 1997.- Early Bird 1, the first commercial artificial satellite with remote sensing, is launched.
  • 1999.- The coup leader of the Ivory Coast, General Robert Guei, dismisses the president, Henry Konan Bedie.
  • – John Paul II inaugurates the Jubilee that celebrates 2,000 years of Christianity.
  • 2002.- Veteran Chinese dissident Xu Wenli is released for health reasons and expelled to the United States by the Chinese authorities.
  • 2002.- A 6.5 kilo superbaby is born in Havana, the heaviest child born in Cuba through natural birth.
  • 2007.- Former Uruguayan military officer Néstor Jorge Fernández Troccoli, involved in “Operation Condor,” was arrested in Italy.
  • 2009.- Pope Benedict XVI suffered an incident during the celebration of Midnight Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica when the Italian-Swiss Susanna Maiolo pushed him and caused him to fall to the ground.
  • 2011.-Kim Jong-un is appointed supreme leader of North Korea.
  • 2015.- The former president of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, María Isabel Chorobik, is reunited with her granddaughter Clara Anahí Teruggi, stolen when she was a baby after her parents disappeared during the dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). ).
  • 2017.- The president of Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, grants a humanitarian pardon to former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity.
  • 2021.- The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office seizes eight properties and immobilizes a bank account of former President Alejandro Toledo worth 6.5 million dollars, for money laundering.

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BIRTH

  • 1837.- Elizabeth of Austria, known as Empress Sisi.
  • 1922.- Ava Gardner, American actress.
  • 1957.- Hamid Karzai, Afghan politician.
  • 1969.- Ed Miliband, British politician.
  • 1971.- Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer.

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DEATHS

  • 1524.- Vasco de Gama, Portuguese explorer.
  • 1873.- Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist.
  • 1984.- Peter Lawford, American actor of British origin.
  • 1993.- Chucho Navarro, Mexican singer and one of the founders of the trio “Los Panchos”.
  • 2008.- Harold Pinter, British, Nobel Prize in Literature.
  • 2016.- Rick Parfitt, guitarist and founder of the British band Satus Quo.
  • 2019.- Allee Willis, American composer.
  • 2020.- Ivry Gitlis, Israeli violinist.



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