December 25

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake hits Gansu in north central China, and 16 campers die in a landslide in California.

Tue, Dec 25 2012 at 5:00 AM

Dec. 25, 1932: A magnitude 7.6 earthquake hits Gansu in north central China, killing an estimated 70,000 people.

Dec. 25, 2003: Sixteen campers die in California’s San Bernadino Mountains as a mudslide buries their campsites. The mountainsides had been stripped of vegetation months before by wildfires, and then steady rains loosened the slopes and engulfed the campers.

Dec. 25, 2007: In his annual Christmas message, Pope Benedict XVII (at right, in Brazil) speaks on the environment, decrying the global “abuse of energy and its selfish and reckless exploitation.”

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