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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- 25 December 1876 - Founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinah born in Karachi, Pakistan.
- 16 December 1925 - Kazi Nazrul Islam started publishing weekly Langal, with himself as editor
- 23 December 1977 - Cat Stevens formally converts to Islam, taking the name Yusuf Islam in 1978
- 24 December 1610 - Treaty signed establishing free commerce between the Netherlands and Morocco
- 27 December 1807 - Omar Ibn Said (pictured), originally from Futa Tooro (modern Senegal) arrives in the United States