Day of the year
December 25
Born on December 25? You're a Capricorn with the Turquoise birthstone.
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December 25 Zodiac Sign
Capricorn (December 22 – January 19)
Element: Earth
disciplinedresponsibleambitiouspatientresourceful
Birthstone
Turquoise
Birth Flower
Narcissus
Season
Winter
Numerology 1
A number of leadership, independence, and fresh starts.
December 25: This Day in History
- 800— Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
- 1642— Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England — the same year Galileo died.
- 1776— George Washington crossed the Delaware River with his troops on Christmas night, launching a surprise attack on Hessian forces at Trenton, New Jersey.
- 1914— The famous Christmas Truce of World War I saw widespread informal ceasefires along the Western Front.
- 1991— Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union, effectively dissolving the USSR.
Famous Birthdays on December 25
- Isaac Newton (1642) — physicist and mathematician
- Humphrey Bogart (1899) — actor
- Annie Lennox (1954) — singer-songwriter
- Jimmy Buffett (1946) — singer-songwriter
- Cab Calloway (1907) — jazz singer and bandleader
What Happens on December 25?
Christmas Day (celebrated globally by Christians and widely in secular culture)
Did You Know? December 25 Fun Facts
- Isaac Newton, born December 25, 1642 (Old Style calendar), spent the plague years of 1665–66 at home developing his theories of calculus, gravity, and optics.
- Gorbachev's Christmas Day 1991 resignation and the lowering of the Soviet flag over the Kremlin that evening marked the formal end of the USSR after 69 years.
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