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On This Day - December
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December
| 1st | 1974: Simon Donnelly is born in Glasgow |
| 2nd | 1911: Patsy Gallacher makes his Celtic debut in a 3-1 home league win over St Mirren. |
| 3rd | 1938: Celtic defeat Hibernian 5-4 in thrilling league clash at Celtic Park |
| 4th | 1951: Jock Stein signs for Celtic from Llanelly. 1982: Celtic lift the League Cup after a 2-1 win over Rangers at Hampden. |
| 5th | 1973: Harry Hood hits a hat-trick as Celtic beat Rangers 3-1 in the League Cup semi-final at Hampden Park. |
| 6th | 1966: Celtic sign Willie Wallace from Hearts for a fee of £30,000 |
| 7th | 1966: Celtic beat Nantes 3-1 in Glasgow to qualify for the quarter-final of the European Cup. |
| 8th | 1888: Celtic 9-2 Clyde in the Scottish Cup 5th Rd 1951: Jock Stein makes his Celtic debut in a 2-1 home league win over St Mirren. 1979: Celtic's game at Dens Park is postponed. Some fans make their way back to Hampden where Aberdeen draw 0-0 with Dundee United in the League Cup final. |
| 9th | 1933: Celtic's Peter Scarff dies at the age of 25 after suffering from TB. |
| 10th | 1997: Celtic sign Harald Brattbakk from Rosenborg |
| 11th | 1974: A crowd of 30,000 attend Parkhead to watch Celtic take on Benfica for the Children's Cup (UNICEF Cup). This one-off fund-raising match is won by the Portugese side on penalties after an exciting 3-3 draw. An impressive £20,000 was raised for charity on the night. |
| 12th | 1880: All time Celtic great Jimmy Hay born in Beith, Ayrshire |
| 13th | 1958: John Colrain grabs a hat-trick as Celtic win home league tie with Stirling Albion 7-3! |
| 14th | 1971: Tommy Gemmell moves to Nottingham Forest for a fee of £35,000 |
| 15th | 1888: Celtic 2-1 East Stirlingshire in the Scottish Cup 6th Rd |
| 16th | 1950: John McPhail scores a goal after only six seconds in a 6-2 victory over East Fife at Celtic Park. 2000: On-loan defender Ramon Vega scores twice on his Hoops debut as the Bhoys thrash Aberden 6-0 at parkhead. |
| 17th | 1921: Celtic thump Clydebank 6-0 at Parkhead |
| 18th | 1971: Celtic defeat Motherwell 5-1 in league clash at Fir Park |
| 19th | 1931: Jimmy McGrory scores four goals as Celtic win league tie 6-0 at Leith Athletic. The game would be Peter Scarff's last for the Hoops. |
| 20th | 2009: Ten men Celtic take the lead but end up 2-1 losers in a league clash with Hearts at Tynecastle. |
| 21st | 1935: Jimmy McGrory hits his fourth hat-trick of the season as Celtic defeat Aberdeen 5-3 in league clash at Parkhead. |
| 22nd | 1893: Celtic win 5-4 in a league clash at Dumbarton. |
| 23rd | 1978: Ex-Celt Andy Ritchie scores the only goal as Celtic lose against Morton at Cappielow. This would be Celtic's last league game until March 3rd 1979. |
| 24th | 1955: Celtic defeat Hibernian 3-2 in a league clash at Easter Road. |
| 25th | 1965: Celtic thrash Morton 8-1 at Parkhead in a league tie. 1971: Celtic defeat Hearts 3-2 at Celtic Park in the last league fixture to have ever been played on Christmas day. *In total Celtic have played 15 times on Christmas day winning thirteen with one draw and a single loss. |
| 26th | 1883: Alec McNair born 1936: Stevie Chalmers born in Glasgow. |
| 27th | 1969: Celtic thrash Partick Thistle 8-1 in a league clash at Parkhead. 1980: Celtic lose heavily by 4-1 at Pittodrie against Aberdeen. The team were 4-0 down when Charlie Nicholas scored the consolation and gets the biggest roar of the day from the huge faithful Celtic support. 1982: Charlie Nicholas scores his 30th goal of the season in the 5-1 home win over Morton on bank holiday Monday. He wins a prize from the Daily Record in the process for being the first Scottish player to hit 30 goals that season. |
| 28th | 1901: Celtic defeat Kilmarnock 4-2 in a league clash at Parkhead. |
| 29th | 1979: Rangers 1-1 Celtic at Ibrox in Celtic's last game of the decade. Bobby Lennox has the distinction over scoring the last Celtic goal of the 70's. |
| 30th | 1961: Charlie Nicholas born in Cowcaddens |
| 31st | 1898: Celtic travel south of the Clde to take on Third Lanark in a league tie the Bhoys win 4-2 |
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