December 24 is the 358th day of the year
It is also Pungenday, The Aftermath 66, 3184 YOLD (discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.6.1.14 by the Mayan Long Count

World History this day

1777 -- Captain Cook "discovered" Kiritimati roughly 240 years after Hernando de Grijalva did. It wasn't nuked until the 1950s
1914 -- The "Christmas truce" began
1941 -- Benghazi was conquered by British troops
1943 -- Ike was named Supreme Allied Commander for Normandy
1951 -- Libya became independent