1642 - Sir Isaac Newton born
1821 - Clara Barton born
1893 - Robert Ripley born
1899 - Humphrey Bogart born
1907 - Cab Calloway born
1918 - Anwar Sadat born
1924 - Rod Serling born
1925 - Carlos Castaneda born
1932 - King George V makes the first ever Christmas day royal broadcast
1945 - Gary Sandy born
1946 - Jimmy Buffett born
1948 - Barbara Mandrell born
1949 - Sissy Spacek and Ron Foos born
1952 - British and Commonwealth listeners hear the Queen's first Christmas broadcast since her accession to the throne.
1954 - Annie Lennox born
1958 - Rickey Henderson born
1971 - Dido born
1974 - The Australian city of Darwin is wrecked by a powerful cyclone (Tracey) that leaves thousands of people homeless.
1977 - Charlie Chaplin, the comic genius of silent films, dies at his home in Switzerland at the age of 88.
1989 - Deposed Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena are shot after being found guilty of crimes against the state.
1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union for almost seven years, steps down from office.
2003 - Scientists fail to make contact with British-built Mars probe Beagle 2, which should have landed on the Red Planet earlier today.
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