In December 1988, the second largest city in the republic, Leninakan ( now Gyumri ), was heavily damaged by a massive quake that killed more than 25, 000 people.

Afonso I ( 25 June 1109, Guimarães or Viseu – 6 December 1185, Coimbra ), more commonly known as Afonso Henriques (), nicknamed " the Conqueror " (), " the Founder " () or " the Great " () by the Portuguese, and El-Bortukali (" the Portuguese ") and Ibn-Arrik (" son of Henry ", " Henriques ") by the Moors whom he fought, was the first King of Portugal.

Another example is when a few passengers and flight attendants teamed up to subdue Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who attempted to detonate explosives sewn into his underwear aboard Northwest Flight 253 on December 25, 2009.

A decree of the council of state on 25 December 1714 reunited Barcelonnete with the general government of Provence.

Chaplin died in his sleep from the complications of a stroke in the early morning of 25 December 1977 at his home in Switzerland.

On 25 December 333, Constantine I elevated Constans to the rank of Caesar at Constantinople.

As such, it defines the day of an annual event, such as a birthday or Christmas on 25 December.

It resulted in the abolition of the Soviet Federal Government (" the Union center ") and independence of the USSR's republics on 25 December 1991.

Coptic Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on 7 January ( Gregorian Calendar ), which coincides with 25 December according to the Julian Calendar.

* Christmas ( December 25 )

** December 25 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

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The disc was released in the U. S. via City Hall Records on December 6, and within two weeks had climbed to # 12 on Amazon's best-seller list in spite of being priced over 25 % higher than most CDs in order to raise funds for the Doris Day Animal League.

** Nazarov was Dictator of the Don Republic ( which before, since its founding on 2 December 1917 at Novocherkassk, had been governed by a Triumvirate including the last pre-Soviet Ataman, Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin ) from 11 February 1918 till 25 February 1918 when Bolshevik troops ended their existence

** Series one: an introductory special on boxing day 1967, followed by 13 regular episodes of 30 minutes broadcast between 26 December 1967 to 28 March 1968, Thursdays at 17: 25.

**" Do not adjust your stocking ", 40 minutes broadcast 25 December 1968, Wednesday 16: 10.

* The first day of Pancha Ganapati, celebrated until December 25 ( India )

* In December 2001, the United States ' National Film Preservation Foundation announced that Morris's The Thin Blue Line would be one of the 25 films selected that year for preservation in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress, bringing the total at the time to 325.

In return for Vanuatu's lifting of the biscuit ban on 25 October, the Fijian government announced on 7 December that it was lifting its kava ban for the sake of freer trade among the members of the Melanesian Spearhead Group ( MSG ).

* Allen, Frances E., " A History of Language Processor Technology in IBM ", IBM Journal of Research and Development, v. 25, no. 5, September 1981.

Escape from New York grossed $ 25. 2 million in American theaters in summer 1981 with a comparable gross in the international market, resulting in a $ 50 million box office, a revenue-production ratio of almost 7: 1.

* Episode 25 of the 1981 anime series Superbook involves this story.

Garfields first Sunday page ran on June 25, 1978, being featured as a third-pager until March 22, 1981.

On November 25, 1981, Laura Bush gave birth to twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna.

* 25 Years of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court, Richard Findlater ( ed ) Amber Lane Press 1981.

Her white, hand-beaded, one shoulder Galanos 1981 inaugural gown was estimated to cost $ 10, 000 while the overall price of her inaugural wardrobe was said to cost $ 25, 000.

Hess began to buy out the remaining partners in 1981 when he bought Martin's 25 % stake for $ 5 million.

* In 2006 eWeek ranked PGP 9th in the 25 Most Influential and Innovative Products introduced since the invention of the PC in 1981.

On 25 November 1981 a force of mercenaries led by " Mad " Mike Hoare attempted to take over the islands, but were discovered at the airport.

The game was played at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 25, 1981, five days after the Iran hostage crisis ended.

The silver collector coin that pays homage to Urho Kekkonen, the longest-serving Finnish president, was issued in 1981, when he had served 25 years as the president.

* August 25 – Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1981 )

The couple had three daughters: Charlotte Janelle ( born August 8, 1981 ), Emily Claire ( born July 25, 1983 ), and Georgia Rose ( born September 3, 1984 ).

It was delivered to Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) on March 25, 1979, and was first launched on April 12, 1981 — the 20th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space flight — with a crew of two.

Eric Eustace Williams ( 25 September 1911 – 29 March 1981 ) served as the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.

Following enactment in August 1981, the first 5 % of the 25 % total cuts took place beginning in October of the same year.

To promote the new album, Prince was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live on February 4, 2006, seventeen years after his last SNL appearance on the 15th anniversary special and nearly 25 years since his first appearance on a regular episode in 1981, making Prince the only SNL musical guest to have that long of a gap between appearances.

Jack Albertson ( June 16, 1907 – November 25, 1981 ) was an American character actor dating to vaudeville.

After receiving more than 25 major commissions since 1981, Branca's music has finally begun to receive academic attention.

At a February 25, 1981, meeting chaired by Meese, Cabinet-level heads of the major foreign affairs agencies agreed on a plan to establish three Senior Interdepartmental Groups ( SIGs ) on foreign, defense, and intelligence problems, chaired respectively by the Secretaries of State and Secretary of Defense and the Director of Central Intelligence.

On 25 January 1981, MPs Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins, William Rodgers and David Owen made the Limehouse Declaration from Owen's house in Limehouse, which announced the formation of the Council for Social Democracy in opposition to the granting of block votes to the trade unions in the Labour Party to which they had previously belonged.

* Viet and Duc Nguyen, born on February 25, 1981 in Kon Tum Province, Vietnam, and separated in 1988 in Ho Chi Minh City.

Regarding college athletics, it has been stated that “ Between 1981 and 1999 university athletic departments cut 171 men ’ s wrestling teams, 84 men ’ s tennis teams, 56 men ’ s gymnastics teams, 27 men ’ s track teams, and 25 men ’ s swimming teams ".