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December 24

Wreckage of the Tangiwai disaster

1871 – Aida, one of Giuseppe Verdi's most popular operas, made its debut in Cairo, Egypt.
1913 – Seventy-three people were crushed to death in a stampede after someone falsely yelled "fire" at a crowded Christmas party in Calumet, Michigan, U.S.
1918 – Forces united in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes defeated Hungarian forces to end the occupation of Međimurje.
1953 – A railway bridge at Tangiwai on New Zealand's North Island was damaged by a lahar and collapsed beneath a passenger train (wreckage pictured), killing 151 people.
2008 – The Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, began attacks on several villages in the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing hundreds and committing numerous atrocities.

Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik (d. 738)
Adam Mickiewicz (b. 1798)
Anthony Fauci (b. 1940)
Pernilla Wahlgren (b. 1967)

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