What happend on 24th December

23.12
25.12
1941

Wake Island is conquered by Japanese forces.

1941

Hong Kong falls to the Japanese Imperial Army.

1924

Albania becomes a republic

1914

World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins

1906

The first radio program, consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, is broadcast.

1865

Several US Civil War Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan

1851

Library of Congress burns.

1818

"Silent Night" composed by Franz Xaver Gruber

1814

The Treaty of Ghent was signed which ended the War of 1812

1777

Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, was discovered by James Cook.