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Significance of 25th December:


Christmas Day is celebrated on 25 December worldwide annually to commemorate the birth anniversary of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.



Good Governance Day in India is observed on 25 December to commemorate the birth anniversary of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, his Samadhi namely 'Sadiav Atal' was dedicated to the nation and reflects his personality as a poet, humanist, statesman, and a great leader.



336- The first recorded celebration of Christmas was in Rome.


1758- Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage.


1962- The Soviet Union conducts its final above-ground nuclear weapon test in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.


1991- Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union. 


2004- The Cassini orbiter was the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter its orbit, where it stayed from 2004 to 2017.




Famous people who had responded birthdays on this day:


1809- Durgaram Mehta was a Gujarati social reformer, essayist, diarist and teacher.


1861- Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya was an Indian scholar, educational reformer and politician.


1880- Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari was an Indian nationalist and political leader, and former president of the INC.


1918- Vadakke Valath Krishnan was an Indian writer, poet, toponymist and historian of Malayalam language.


1920- Kapila Vatsyayan was a leading scholar of Indian classical dance, art, architecture, and art history.


1927- Ram Narayan often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician who popularised the bowed instrument sarangi as a solo concert instrument in Hindustani classical music.


1948- Humayun Kabir was a progressive poet in the Bengali language of the 20th century.


1963- Raju Srivastav, Indian comedian. 


1971- Santhosh George Kulangara, Indian entrepreneur, traveller, publisher and media person.


1974- Nagma Arvind Morarji, Indian politician and actress.




Famous people who have death anniversaries on this day:


1948- Kusumkumari Das was a Bengali poet, writer and social activist. 


1972- Chakravarti Rajagopalachari was an Indian politician, independence activist, lawyer, writer, historian and statesman.


1975- Umashankar Banerjee was a Bengali poet.


1977- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.


1994- Giani Zail Singh was the seventh President of India serving from 1982 to 1987. He was the first Sikh to become president.


2004- Nripen Chakraborty was an Indian politician and the chief minister of Tripura state from 1978 to 1988.


2018- Nirendranath Chakravarty was a contemporary Bengali poet, translator, and novelist. He translated Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin in Bengali.

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