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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.
Events
1481 - Battle of Westbroek - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht 1606 - King Lear performed in the Court of England1620 - Elizabeth Bathory 's crimes are uncovered1620 - Pilgrim Fathers land of what becomes New Plymouth in Massachusetts 1776 - American Revolutionary War : The British were 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 - Final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris1793 - Battle of Geisberg - French defeat Austrians1793 - Wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz1806 - Battle of Pultusk - indecisive battle between Napoleon and the Russians 1812 - Delaware and Chesapeake blockaded during the War of 1812 1825 - The Erie Canal opens1861 - Confederate diplomatic envoys James Mason and John Slidell are freed by the Britain 1862 - 38 starving and angry Dakota men are hanged for killing white people after a brief rebellion1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium 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 - Communist Party of India founded1925 - Turkey adopts Gregorian Calendar 1931 - Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity was founded1933 - The Nissan Motor Company was organized in Tokyo , Japan 1933 - FM radio is patented1944 - The play The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams was first publicly performed.1944 - American troops repulse German forces at Bastogne 1945 - CFP franc and CFA franc are created1946 - Flamingo Hotel opens in Las Vegas 1947 - 26 inches of snowfall in 16 hours in New York City 1948 - Cardinal Mindszenty arrested in Hungary 1966 - The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga , the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach 1973 - Comet Kohoutek reaches perihelion but is not such a display as expected1973 - Soyuz 13 lands1974 - Salyut 4 launched1975 - Tupolev Tu-144 goes into service in Soviet Union 1979 - Soviet Special forces troops take over presidential palace in Kabul , Afghanistan 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; a computer 1984 - Princess Astrid of Belgium marries Archduke Lorenz of Austria-Este 1986 - The first long-running American television soap opera , Search for Tomorrow 1988 - Start of the Nanjing Anti-African protests1991 - Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the USSR 1996 - JonBenét Ramsey , a six-year-old beauty queen , was found murdered in her family's basement in Boulder, Colorado 1996 - United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification goes into force1998 - Iraq announced its intention to fire upon US and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern "no-fly zones"1998 - Severe gales over Ireland, northern England, and southern Scotland. Widespread disruption, widespread power outages in Northern Ireland and southern Scotland1999 - On the 26-28th, France and countries to east hit by severe storms and rain. Over 100 people were killed, and the storm caused extensive damage to property and trees and the French national power grid.2002 - French Raelian scientist Brigitte Boisselier says Clonaid has delivered the first of a supposed five clone babies through cesarean section 2003 - Major earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam , with up to 43,300 killed, and 90,000 homeless; the citadel of Arg-é Bam destroyed.2004 - A major earthquake and ensuing tsunami causes devastation in Sri Lanka , India , Indonesia , Thailand , Malaysia , The Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean . The death toll is currently estimated at around 226,000. Officials say the true toll may never be known, due to rapid burials.
Births 1194 - Frederick II , Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1250 )1532 - Guilielmus Xylander , German classical scholar (d. 1576 )1536 - the Confucian scholar Yi I (Yulgok) of Joseon (d. 1584 )1716 - Thomas Gray , poet and letter-writer (d. 1771 )1735 - Prince Josias of Coburg , Holy Roman Empire general (d. 1815 )1751 - Clement Mary Hofbauer, Redemptorist missionary (d. 1820 )1780 - Mary Fairfax Somerville , UK mathematician (d. 1872 )1791 - Charles Babbage , English mathematician and inventor of computing machines (d. 1871 )1819 - E. D. E. N. Southworth , US novelist (d. 1899 )1822 - Dion Boucicault , Irish actor and playwright (d. 1890 )1837 - George Dewey , Admiral in the United States Navy (d. 1917 )1853 - René Bazin , French novelist (d. 1932 )1883 - Maurice Utrillo , painter (d. 1955 )1891 - Henry Miller, writer (d. 1980 )1893 - Mao Zedong , Chinese military leader and politician (d. 1976 )1903 - Elisha Cook Jr., actor (d. 1995 )1914 - Richard Widmark , actor1921 - Steve Allen , actor, comedian, composer, author (d. 2000 )1927 - Alan King , comedian, actor (d. 2004 )1940 - Phil Spector , music producer1942 - Gray Davis , former Governor of California 1945 - John Walsh , talk show host, television presenter1947 - Carlton Fisk , Baseball Hall of Famer 1949 - José Ramos Horta , East Timorean Human Rights activist1954 - Ozzie Smith , Baseball Hall of Famer 1956 - David Sedaris , essayist1971 - Jared Leto , actor
Deaths 268 - Pope Dionysius 418 - Pope Zosimus 1458 - Arthur III, the Justicier , Duke of Brittany 1530 - Babur , first of the Mogul dynasty (b. 1483 ?)1624 - Simon Marius , German astronomer1771 - Claude Adrien Helvétius , French philosopher1869 - Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille , French physiologist (b. 1797 )1890 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (b. 1822 )1909 - Frederic Remington , artist (b. 1861 )1963 - Gorgeous George , professional wrestler , television personality1972 - Harry S. Truman , 33rd president of the United States (b. 1884 )1973 - Harold B. Lee , president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , (b. 1899 )1974 - Jack Benny , comedian (b. 1894 )1977 - Howard Hawks , film director, writer (b. 1896 )1985 - Dian Fossey , anthropologist (b. 1932 )1986 - Elsa Lanchester , actress (b. 1902 )1999 - Curtis Mayfield , musician (b. 1942 )2000 - Jason Robards , actor (b. 1922 )2001 - Nigel Hawthorne , actor (b. 1929 )2002 - Herb Ritts, celebrity photographer (b. 1952 )2002 - Armand Zildjian , cymbal manufacturer 2003 - Sir Alan Bates , British actor2003 - Hope Lange , television actress 2004 - Reggie White , American football player (b. 1961 )2004 - Sir Angus Ogilvy , husband of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent (b. 1928 ) 2004 - Dr. Marianne Heiberg , Oslo accords mediator (b. 1945 )
Holidays and observances December 26 is a public holiday in most Christian countries, a notable exception being the United States .
Other annual occurrences December 25 - December 27 - November 26 - January 26 -- listing of all days
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Bali Tsunami & Earthquake Risk (1089 words)
It is an unfortunate fact that the very same fault line which caused the December 26th 2004 tsunami , where the Eurasia plate pushes over the Australia plate, runs just south of Bali. You see, after the December 26th quake that caused the killer tsunami across the Indian Ocean, virtually all of the aftershocks happened to the north of the main quake's epicenter. You see, the largest wave that hit Aceh (nearest to the quake) on December 26th 2005 , was some 30 meters (100 feet) high.
December - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (364 words)
December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. December begins (astrologically) with the sun in the sign of Sagittarius and ends in the sign of Capricorn. December was the tenth month in the Roman calendar until a monthless winter period (summer in the southern hemisphere) was divided between January and February .
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