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Notable anniversaries in history for today: December 24
- 500th: 1524 - Vasco da Gama Portuguese explorer/viceroy of Cochin India, dies at about age 55.
- 400th: 1624 - King Christian IV of Denmark establishes the Danish Postal Service.
- 300th: 1724 - Benjamin Franklin arrives in London.
- 150th: 1874 - Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Roy Miller; cricket player (West Indies all-rounder in one Test 1953, 23 and 0-28).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Willem Drees; economist/Dutch politician (DS'70).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of [Irving] Lee Dorsey in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; vocalist ("Working in the Coal Mine").
- 100th: 1924 - Ahmed Beg Zogu seizes power of Albania, declares himself president of Albanian Republic.
- 100th: 1924 - School in Babb's Switch, Oklahoma, USA catches fire; 36 die.
- 90th: 1934 - Clarrie Grimmett takes 9-180 in cricket for South Africa as Queensland make 430.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Erhard Keller; German Federal Republic 500-metre speed skater (Olympics-gold-1968, 1972).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Mike Curb in Savannah, Georgia, USA; singer (Mike Curb Congregation).
- 70th: 1954 - Council for the Children Protection forms in Netherlands.
- 70th: 1954 - Laos gains its independence.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Elbert Shelley; NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Marcel van der Net; Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Mark Valley in Odgensvurg, New York, USA; actor (Days of Our Lives).
- 50th: 1974 - Saint Louis Cardinals' Lou Brock is named Sportsman of the Year.
- 50th: 1974 - Tilly Losch, actress (Duel in the Sun, Good Earth), dies at age 70.
- 40th: 1984 - Ian Hendry, actor (Assassin, Get Carter, Repulsion), dies at age 53.
- 40th: 1984 - Palace coup in Mauritania.
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Peter Lawford at age 61 of liver and kidney disease; actor (The Thin Man, Dear Phoebe).
- 30th: 1994 - Four Muslim fundamentalists capture Air France pilot in Algiers.
- 30th: 1994 - John James Osborne (Entertainer Luther), playwright, dies of cardiac arrest at age 65.
- 30th: 1994 - John Keith Wright, English Assistant Secretary of State (1971-84), dies at age 66.
- 30th: 1994 - Julie Haydon [Donella Donaldson], US actress (Scoundrel), dies at age 84.
- 30th: 1994 - Louise H "Lous" Hensen, actress (Uncle Wanja, Charlotte), dies at age 74.
- 30th: 1994 - Nathan I. Daniel, inventor (Guitars), dies at age 82.
- 30th: 1994 - Rossano Brazzi, Italian resistance fighter/actor (Final Justice), dies at age 78.
- 25th: 1999 - Indian Airlines Flight 814, en route from Kathmandu, Nepal to Delhi, India is hijacked and taken to Kandahar, Afghanistan.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of Rafael Caldera, 54th and 60th President of Venezuela (born 1916).
- 15th: 2009 - The Barack Obama administration pledges to back mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac up to US$810 billion during 2010, up from the current US$200 billion, no matter how big their losses may be in the next three years.
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