1967 Paul McCartney and Jane Asher get engaged

1968 Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon

1971 Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul

1973 Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799,405 miles)

1974 Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia

1977 Israeli PM Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with Egyptian President Sadat

1983 Live telecast of Christmas Parade

1989 Japanese scientist achieve -271.8øC, coldest temp ever recorded

1990 "Godfather III" premiers

1993 SS South of Ireland, a passenger steamer, built for the Great Western Railway, and completed in 1867, she was lost at Warbarrow near Lulworth on December 25th, inward bound to Weymouth.

2000 A bank machine in a supermarket in the town of Antibes France paid double the withdrawal amount while only recording the correct amount (Merry Christmas)

2000 A Christmas day fire killed 309 people at a dance hall in the central Chinese city of Luoyang

1066 William the Conqueror's coronation, held at Westminster Abbey

1950 The Stone of Scone, the Scottish coronation stone, is stolen from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalists

1642 The birth of Isacc Newton, English scientist

1883 The birth of Maurice Utrillo, French painter

1899 The birth of Humphrey Bogart, American actor

1949 The birth of Sissy Spacek, American actress

2005 Death of Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (b. 1918)

2005 Death of Charles Socarides, M.D., psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (b. 1922)

2007 An overcrowded suspension bridge collapsed near Nepalgunj, Nepal. At least 15 people are dead, with 100 to 200 missing.

2007 An escaped tiger at the San Francisco Zoo kills one person and injures two others.

2007 Queen Elizabeth II broadcasts her 50th televised Royal Christmas Message to the Commonwealth.

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