December 22, 1939- Two trains crash in Magdeburg, Germany, killing more than 100 people. December 23, 1987- Dick Rutan and Jenna Yeager set a new world record 216 hours of continuous flight around the world without refueling with their aircraft Voyager flying 24, 986 miles. December 24, 1990- On Christmas Eve, the bells of Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow rang for the first time since the death of Lenin. December 25, 1926- Hirohito became Emperor of Japan. December 26, 2004- Around 230,000 people killed and 1.5 million people left homeless as a 9.3 magnitude earthquake in the Indian Ocean leads to a series of tsunami's crashing into Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, India, and Somalia. December 27, 1927- Josef Stalin secured his power in Soviet Russia be expelling his rival Leon Trotsky from the Soviet Communist Party. December 28, 1947- Victor Emmanuel III, the last king of Italy, died while in exile in Alexandria, Egypt.
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