Template:Selected anniversaries/December 25
1125: Canterbury scrying engine computes new program in celebration of Christmas.
1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
1932: Enrico Fermi computes probability set for path Santa Claus will travel.
1956: John Brunner uses scrying engine to extract cryptographic numen from Hellscreiber transmissions.
1964: The Hal Jordan Playbook is "the perfect Christmas Gift", according to public statement from Vandal Savage Press.
2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.
2017: Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association wishes you a Merry Christmas.