December 26 2006 |
And previous decades events |
Read about how to open files in Open File Database. |
| December 26th, 2006 (December 26 2006) | Event | The 2006 Hengchun earthquake with 7.1 magnitude hit Taiwan. | |
| December 26th, 2006 (December 26 2006) | Death | Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (born in 1913) | Gerald Ford Quotes |
| December 26th, 2006 (December 26 2006) | Death | Ivar Formo, Norwegian skier (born in 1951) | |
| December 26th, 1996 (December 26 1996) | Event | Start of the largest strike in South Korean history. | |
| December 26th, 1996 (December 26 1996) | Event | The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification goes into force. | |
| December 26th, 1996 (December 26 1996) | Event | Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family s home in Boulder, Colorado. | |
| December 26th, 1996 (December 26 1996) | Death | JonBenet Ramsey, noted murder victim (born in 1990) | |
| December 26th, 1986 (December 26 1986) | Event | The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after thirty-five years on the air. | |
| December 26th, 1986 (December 26 1986) | Death | Elsa Lanchester, British-born actress (born in 1902) | |
| December 26th, 1976 (December 26 1976) | Event | The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded. | |
| December 26th, 1976 (December 26 1976) | Birth | Lea De Mae, Czech actress (died in 2004) | |
| December 26th, 1966 (December 26 1966) | Event | The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach. | |
| December 26th, 1966 (December 26 1966) | Birth | Sandra Taylor, American model and actress | |
| December 26th, 1966 (December 26 1966) | Death | Herbert Otto Gille, German SS officer (born in 1897) | |
| December 26th, 1956 (December 26 1956) | Birth | David Sedaris, American essayist | David Sedaris Quotes |
| December 26th, 1916 (December 26 1916) | Event | Joseph Joffre is made Marshal of France. | |
| December 26th, 1906 (December 26 1906) | Birth | Imperio Argentina, Argentine actress and singer (died in 2003) | |
| December 26th, 1806 (December 26 1806) | Event | Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon. | |
| December 26th, 1786 (December 26 1786) | Death | Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (born in 1713) | |
| December 26th, 1776 (December 26 1776) | Event | American Revolutionary War: The British are defeated in the Battle of Trenton. | |
| December 26th, 1716 (December 26 1716) | Birth | Thomas Gray, English writer (died in 1771) | Thomas Gray Quotes |
| December 26th, 1716 (December 26 1716) | Birth | Jean Francois de Saint-Lambert, French poet (died in 1803) | |
| December 26th, 1666 (December 26 1666) | Birth | Guru Gobind Singh, Tenth Guru of Sikhism (died in 1708) | |
| December 26th, 1646 (December 26 1646) | Birth | Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (died in 1709) | |
| December 26th, 1536 (December 26 1536) | Birth | Yi I, Korean Confucian scholar (died in 1584) | |
| December 26th, 1476 (December 26 1476) | Death | Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (born in 1444) | |
