Twitter Updates for 2009-12-25

By Alejandro On diciembre 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

December 24 is the 358th day of the year (359th in leap years). There are seven days remaining until the end of the year. #

World's Journal: Dec 24 – Facts – 1294 – Pope Boniface VIII is elected Pope, replacing St. Celestine V, who had resigned. #

World's Journal: Dec 24 – Facts – 1777 – Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook. #

World's Journal: Dec 24 – Facts – 1865 – Several U.S. Civil War Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan. #

World's Journal: Dec 24 – Facts – 1924 – Albania becomes a republic. #

World's Journal: Dec 24 – Facts – 1929 – Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen. #

World's Journal: Dec 24 – Facts – 1939 – World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace. #

World's Journal: Dec 24 – Facts – 1946 – France's Fourth Republic is founded. #

World's Journal: Dec 24 – Facts – 1951 – Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya. #

World's Journal: Dec 24 – Briths – 1166 – King John of England (d. 1216) #

World's Journal: Dec 24 – Briths – 1609 – Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (d. 1683) #

World's Journal: Dec 24 – Briths – 1881 – Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) #

World's Journal: Dec 24 – Briths – 1894 – Georges Guynemer, French aviator (d. 1917) #

World's Journal: Dec 24 – Briths – 1923 – George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004) #

World's Journal: Dec 24 – Briths – 1971 – Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer #

World's Journal: Dec 24 – Saints – Feast of Saint Adela and Saint Irmina #

World's Journal: Dec 24 – Venezuela – Death of Former President of Venezuela Rafael Caldera, (01/16/1916 – 12/24/2009) #

World's Journal: Dec 24 – Venezuela – Death of Former President Rafael Caldera (01/24/1916 – 12/24/2009). #

World's Journal: Dec 24 – The Declaration of Christmas Peace takes place in the Old Great Square of Turku, Finland's official Christmas City #

Pope Benedicto was knoked down minutes before Misa de Gallo #

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