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December 26 is the 360th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar , 361st in leap years . There are 5 days remaining in the year.
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1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 Other annual occurrences 6 External links
Events 1481 - Battle of Westbroek - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht .
1620 - Elizabeth Báthory 's crimes are uncovered.
1620 - Pilgrim Fathers land at what becomes New Plymouth in Massachusetts .
1776 - American Revolutionary War : The British are defeated in the Battle of Trenton .
1790 - Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution .
1792 - The final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris .
1793 - Battle of Geisberg : French defeat Austrians .
1793 - The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.
1805 - Austria and France signed the Treaty of Pressburg .
1806 - Battles of Pultusk and Golymin : Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon .
1811 - A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable .
1825 - Several Imperial Russia army officers lead circa 3000 soldiers on the Senate Square in the failed Decembrist uprising .
1825 - The Erie Canal opens.
1848 - The Phi Delta Theta fraternity is founded.
1860 - The first ever inter-club football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at Sandygate in Sheffield , England .
1861 - American Civil War : Confederate diplomatic envoys James M. Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and Britain .
1862 - American Civil War : The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.
1862 - Four nuns who were volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover were the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship .
1862 - The largest mass-hanging in US history took place in Mankato, Minnesota , killing 39.
1870 - The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium .
1906 - The story of the Kelly Gang is released, widely considered to be the world's first feature film.
1908 - Jack Johnson becomes the first African American heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Tommy Burns in Sydney , Australia .
1916 - Joseph Joffre is made Marshal of France .
1925 - The Communist Party of India is founded.
1925 - Turkey adopts the Gregorian Calendar .
1931 - Phi Iota Alpha , the oldest existing Latino fraternity is founded.
1933 - The Nissan Motor Company is organized in Tokyo , Japan .
1933 - FM radio is patented.
1943 - World War II : The German warship Scharnhorst Norway after being attacked by the Royal Navy late the previous evening.
1944 - The play The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams is first publicly performed.
1944 - World War II : U.S. troops repulse German forces at Bastogne .
1945 - CFP franc and CFA franc are created.
1946 - The Flamingo Hotel opens in Las Vegas .
1947 - Twenty-six inches of snow falls in 16 hours in New York City .
1948 - Cardinal Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
1966 - The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga , the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach .
1972 - Harry S. Truman , a former President , dies in Kansas City, Missouri .
1973 - Comet Kohoutek reaches perihelion but is not such a display as expected.
1973 - Soyuz 13 lands on earth after a week in orbit.
1974 - Salyut 4 is launched.
1975 - The Tupolev Tu-144 goes into service in Soviet Union .
1976 - The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded.
1979 - Soviet Special forces troops take over presidential palace in Kabul , Afghanistan .
1979 - Opening night of the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea at the Hammersmith Odeon ; a benefit concert for the citizens of Cambodia who were victims of dictator Pol Pot
1980 - Aeroflot puts the Ilyushin Il-86 into service.
1982 - TIME magazine 'sMan of the Year was for the first time given to a non-human, the personal computer .
1986 - The first long-running American television soap opera , Search for Tomorrow 1988 - The Nanjing Anti-African protests in Nanjing , the People's Republic of China begin.
1991 - Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the USSR .
1996 - Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
1996 - The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification goes into force.
1997 - Jerry Seinfeld announces that his hit show Seinfeld 1997 - The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore.
1998 - Iraq announced its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones .
1998 - Severe gales over Ireland , northern England , and southern Scotland cause widespread disruption and widespread power outages in Northern Ireland and southern Scotland .
1999 - Severe weather in France kills over 100 people and causes extensive damage to property and trees and the French national power grid (see Lothar ).
2002 - French Raelian scientist Brigitte Boisselier says Clonaid has delivered the first of a supposed five clone babies through cesarean section .
2003 - A strong magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam , killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-é Bam .
2004 - An earthquake measuring 9.3 on the Richter magnitude scale creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka , India , Indonesia , Thailand , Malaysia , The Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean , killing more than 200,000.
2006 - A magnitude 7.1 earthquake near Taiwan generated a tsunami 3 feet high.
Births 1194 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1250 )
1532 - Guilielmus Xylander , German classical scholar (d. 1576 )
1536 - Yi I , Korean Confucian scholar (d. 1584 )
1646 - Robert Bolling , English settler in Virginia (d. 1709 )
1687 - Johann Georg Pisendel , German musician (d. 1755 )
1716 - Thomas Gray , English writer (d. 1771 )
1716 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert , French poet (d. 1803 )
1723 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm , German writer (d. 1807 )
1737 - Prince Josias of Coburg , Austrian general (d. 1815 )
1751 - Clement Hofbauer , Austrian missionary and saint (d. 1820 )
1780 - Mary Fairfax Somerville , British mathematician (d. 1872 )
1782 - Filaret Drozdov , Metropolitan of Moscow (d. 1867 )
1791 - Charles Babbage , English mathematician and inventor (d. 1871 )
1819 - E. D. E. N. Southworth , American novelist (d. 1899 )
1822 - Dion Boucicault , Irish actor and playwright (d. 1890 )
1837 - George Dewey , U. S. admiral (d. 1917 )
1853 - René Bazin , French novelist (d. 1932 )
1859 - William Stephens , U.S. political figure (d. 1944 )
1872 - Norman Angell , British politician, Nobel laureate (d. 1967 )
1873 - Thomas Wass , English cricketer (d. 1953 )
1887 - Arthur Ernest Percival , British Army officer (d. 1966 )
1890 - Uncle Charlie Osborne , American fiddler (d. 1992 )
1891 - Henry Miller , American writer (d. 1980 )
1893 - Mao Zedong , Chinese military leader and politician (d. 1976 )
1894 - Jean Toomer , American writer (d. 1967 )
1902 - Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan , Russian painter (d. 1980 )
1903 - Elisha Cook Jr. , American actor (d. 1995 )
1904 - Alejo Carpentier , Cuban writer (d. 1980 )
1906 - Imperio Argentina , Argentine actress and singer (d. 2003 )
1914 - Richard Widmark , American actor
1914 - Annemarie Wendl , German actress (d. 2006 )
1921 - Steve Allen , American comedian (d. 2000 )
1922 - Richard Mayes , English actor (d. 2006 )
1927 - Alan King , American comedian (d. 2004 )
1927 - Denis Quilley , British actor (d. 2003 )
1927 - Stu Miller , baseball player
1929 - Régine , French singer and nightclub owner
1930 - Donald Moffat , English-born actor
1930 - Jean Ferrat , French singer and songwriter
1933 - Ugly Dave Gray , Australian television personality
1933 - Caroll Spinney , American puppeteer
1935 - Abdul "Duke" Fakir , American singer (The Four Tops )
1935 - Norm Ullman , Canadian hockey player
1937 - John Horton Conway , British mathematician
1937 - Jay Heimowitz , American poker player
1938 - Bahram Beizai , Iranian playwright and film director
1940 - Edward C. Prescott , American economist, Nobel laureate
1940 - Phil Spector , American music producer
1940 - Ray Sadecki , Major league baseball pitcher
1941 - Daniel Schmid , Swiss film director (d. 2006 )
1942 - Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo , Guatemalan president
1942 - Gray Davis , former Governor of California
1944 - Jane Lapotaire , British actress
1945 - John Walsh , American talk show host
1947 - Carlton Fisk , American baseball player
1948 - Candy Crowley , American journalist
1949 - José Ramos Horta , Foreign Minister of East Timor , Nobel laureate
1951 - Richard Skinner , British radio presenter
1954 - Ozzie Smith , American baseball player
1954 - Steve Steen , English actor
1955 - Evan Bayh , American politician
1956 - David Sedaris , American essayist
1957 - Dermot Murnaghan , British broadcaster
1958 - Adrian Newey , British engineer
1959 - Koji Morimoto , Japanese animated film director
1960 - Temuera Morrison , New Zealand actor
1961 - John Lynch , Irish actor
1963 - Lars Ulrich , Danish-born drummer (Metallica )
1966 - Sandra Taylor , American model and actress
1968 - Dennis Knight , American professional wrestler
1970 - James Mercer , musician (The Shins )
1970 - Krissada Terrence , Thai singer and actor
1971 - Jared Leto , American actor
1971 - Jonathan M. Parisen , American film director
1975 - Marcelo Ríos , Chilean tennis player
1976 - Lea De Mae , Czech actress (d. 2004 )
1978 - Kaoru Sugayama , Japanese volleyball player
1979 - Chris Daughtry , American singer
1980 - Todd Dunivant , soccer player
1984 - Alex Schwazer , Italian race walker
1987 - Adam Walker , British flautist
Deaths 268 - Pope Dionysius
418 - Pope Zosimus
1350 - Jean de Marigny , French bishop
1458 - Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1393 )
1476 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza , Duke of Milan (b. 1444 )
1530 - Babur , Emperor of the Mogul empire (b. 1483 )
1574 - Charles of Guise , French cardinal (b. 1524 )
1624 - Simon Marius , German astronomer (b. 1573 )
1731 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte , French writer (b. 1672 )
1771 - Claude Adrien Helvétius , French philosopher (b. 1715 )
1780 - John Fothergill , English physician (b. 1712 )
1784 - Seth Warner , American revolutionary leader (b. 1743 )
1786 - Gasparo Gozzi , Italian critic and dramatist (b. 1713 )
1869 - Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille , French physiologist (b. 1797 )
1890 - Heinrich Schliemann , German archaeologist (b. 1822 )
1909 - Frederic Remington , American artist (b. 1861 )
1931 - Melvil Dewey , inventor of the Dewey decimal classification (b. 1851 )
1933 - Anatoly Lunacharsky , Russian literary critic and politician (b. 1875 )
1957 - Charles Pathé , French film and recording industries pioneer (b. 1863 )
1960 - Watsuji Tetsuro , Japanese philosopher (b. 1889 )
1963 - George Wagner , American professional wrestler and television personality (b. 1915 )
1970 - Lillian Board , British athlete (b. 1948 )
1972 - Harry S. Truman , 33rd President of the United States (b. 1884 )
1973 - Harold B. Lee , 11th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899 )
1974 - Jack Benny , American comedian (b. 1894 )
1977 - Howard Hawks , American film director and writer (b. 1896 )
1980 - Tony Smith , American sculptor (b. 1912 )
1981 - Savithri , Indian actress (b. 1937 )
1981 - Amber Reeves , feminist writer (b. 1887 )
1983 - Violet Carson , British actress (b. 1898 )
1985 - Dian Fossey , American gorilla specialist (b. 1932 )
1986 - Elsa Lanchester , British-born actress (b. 1902 )
1988 - Glenn McCarthy , American oil tycoon and businessman (b. 1907 )
1989 - Doug Harvey , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924 )
1992 - Nikita Magaloff , Russian pianist (b. 1912 )
1996 - JonBenét Ramsey , American child beauty queen (b. 1990 )
1997 - Cornelius Castoriadis , Greek philosopher and economist (b. 1922 )
1999 - Curtis Mayfield , American musician (b. 1942 )
1999 - Shankar Dayal Sharma , President of India (b. 1918 )
2000 - Jason Robards , American actor (b. 1922 )
2001 - Nigel Hawthorne , English actor (b. 1929 )
2002 - Herb Ritts , American photographer (b. 1952 )
2002 - Armand Zildjian , American cymbal manufacturer (b. 1921 )
2003 - Alan Bates , British actor (b. 1934 )
2004 - Troy Broadbridge , Australian rules footballer (b. 1980 )
2004 - Marianne Heiberg , Norwegian mediator (b. 1945 )
2004 - Sir Angus Ogilvy , British businessman, husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent (b. 1928 )
2004 - Aki Sirkesalo , Finnish musician (b. 1962 )
2004 - Reggie White , American football player (b. 1961 )
2004 - Jonathan Drummond-Webb , South African pediatric heart surgeon (b. 1959 )
2004 - Mieszko Talarczyk , Lead singer/Guitarist of grindcore band, Nasum (b. 1974 )
2005 - Jane Creba , Canadian murder victim (b. 1990 )
2005 - Kerry Packer , Australian businessman (b. 1937 )
2005 - Vincent Schiavelli , American actor (b. 1948 )
2005 - Erich Topp , German submarine commander (b. 1914 )
2006 - Gerald Ford , 38th President of the United States (b. 1913 )
2006 - Ivar Formo , Norwegian skier (b. 1951 )
Holidays and observances
December 26 is a public holiday in most Christian countries, a notable exception being the
United States (unless
Christmas Day falls on a
Sunday like it did in
2005 and will again in
2011 , in which it is the observed federal holiday). In Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and Scandinavia, Christmas Day and the following day are called First and Second Christmas Day.
Other annual occurrences
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