December 24
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[change] Holidays
- Christmas Eve
[change] Events
- 1851 - The United States Library of Congress burns down.
- 1943 - World War II: US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the supreme Allied commander.
[change] Births
- 1166 - John I of England
- 1809 - Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868)
- 1943 - Tarja Halonen, the president of Finland
- 1969 - Tom Schneider, the Team-Director of German Handball Fedaration