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December 25th, 2004	Event	Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn s moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
December 25th, 2003	Event	The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe which was released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing.
December 25th, 1991	Event	Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine s referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
December 25th, 1990	Event	The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.
December 25th, 1989	Event	Nicolae Ceausescu, former communist dictator of Romania, and his wife Elena are condemned to death and executed under a wide range of charges.
December 25th, 1979	Event	The Soviet Union airlifts forces into Afghanistan to begin its costly occupation.
December 25th, 1977	Event	Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with President of Egypt Anwar Sadat.
December 25th, 1974	Event	Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia.
December 25th, 1974	Event	Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.
December 25th, 1973	Event	The ARPANET crashes when a programming bug causes all ARPANET traffic to be routed through the server at Harvard University, causing the server to freeze.

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