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This day in history: December 25

1. 1990

   British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee introduced WorldWideWeb, the world's first web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor.

2. 1991

   In a nationally televised speech, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union.

3. 2000

   Russian president Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill officially adopting a new national anthem, with music by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov originally composed for the anthem of the Soviet Union.

4. 2007

   A tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escaped from its enclosure and attacked three patrons before it was shot and killed.

5. 2009

   Aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear.

6. 2009

   A fire destroyed Longford's 19th-century St Mel's Cathedral, considered the "flagship cathedral" of the Irish midlands.

7. 2016

   A Tupolev Tu-154 of the Russian Defence Ministry crashed into the Black Sea shortly after taking off from Sochi International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.

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