📜 This Day in History

December 25

• 36After the death of Emperor Gongsun Shu of Chengjia, the empire was conquered by the Eastern Han dynasty.
• 1724Johann Sebastian Bach led the first performance of Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, based on the Christmas hymn written by Martin Luther in 1524.
• 1831A Baptist preacher named Samuel Sharpe began an unsuccessful eleven-day slave revolt in Jamaica.
• 1989Romanian Revolution: Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena were condemned to death on a wide range of charges and executed.
• 2007A tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escaped from its enclosure and attacked three patrons before it was shot and killed.
• 2024After the loss of aircraft systems, Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 crashed near Aktau International Airport while attempting to perform an emergency landing after being hit by a Russian defense missile.

Born on this day

• 1642Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician (died 1727)
• 1876Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Pakistan (died 1948)
• 1899Humphrey Bogart, American actor (died 1957)
• 1971Justin Trudeau, Canadian educator and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada