December 26 Events |
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| December 26th, 2006 (December 26 2006) | Event | The 2006 Hengchun earthquake with 7.1 magnitude hit Taiwan. | |
| December 26th, 2005 (December 26 2005) | Event | Boxing Day shooting on a busy shopping street in Toronto. | |
| December 26th, 2004 (December 26 2004) | Event | A 9.3 magnitude earthquake 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 230,000 people. | |
| December 26th, 2003 (December 26 2003) | Event | A strong magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-e Bam. | |
| December 26th, 1999 (December 26 1999) | Event | Severe weather in France kills over 100 people and causes extensive damage to property, trees and the French national power grid (see Lothar). | |
| December 26th, 1998 (December 26 1998) | Event | Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones. | |
| December 26th, 1998 (December 26 1998) | Event | Severe gales over Ireland, northern England, and southern Scotland cause widespread disruption and widespread power outages in Northern Ireland and southern Scotland. | |
| December 26th, 1997 (December 26 1997) | Event | The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore. | |
| 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, 1991 (December 26 1991) | Event | The Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the USSR. | |
| December 26th, 1988 (December 26 1988) | Event | The Nanjing Anti-African protests in Nanjing, the People s Republic of China begin. | |
| 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, 1982 (December 26 1982) | Event | Time Magazine s Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer. | |
| December 26th, 1980 (December 26 1980) | Event | Aeroflot puts the Ilyushin Il-86 into service. | |
| December 26th, 1979 (December 26 1979) | Event | Soviet Special forces take over presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. | |
| December 26th, 1979 (December 26 1979) | Event | 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. | |
| December 26th, 1976 (December 26 1976) | Event | The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded. | |
| December 26th, 1975 (December 26 1975) | Event | The Tupolev Tu-144 goes into service in Soviet Union. | |
| December 26th, 1974 (December 26 1974) | Event | Salyut 4 is launched. | |
| December 26th, 1973 (December 26 1973) | Event | Comet Kohoutek reaches perihelion but is not as spectacular a display as expected. | |
| December 26th, 1973 (December 26 1973) | Event | Soyuz 13 lands on earth after a week in orbit. | |
| 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, 1948 (December 26 1948) | Event | Cardinal Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy. | |
| December 26th, 1945 (December 26 1945) | Event | CFP franc and CFA franc are created. | |
| December 26th, 1944 (December 26 1944) | Event | World War II: U.S. troops repulse German forces at Bastogne. | |
| December 26th, 1943 (December 26 1943) | Event | World War II: The German warship Scharnhorst sinks off the coast of North Cape in Norway after being attacked by the Royal Navy late the previous evening. | |
| December 26th, 1933 (December 26 1933) | Event | The Nissan Motor Company is organized in Tokyo, Japan. | |
| December 26th, 1933 (December 26 1933) | Event | FM radio is patented. | |
| December 26th, 1925 (December 26 1925) | Event | The Communist Party of India is founded. | |
| December 26th, 1925 (December 26 1925) | Event | Turkey adopts the Gregorian Calendar. | |
| December 26th, 1919 (December 26 1919) | Event | Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee. | Babe Ruth Quotes |
| December 26th, 1916 (December 26 1916) | Event | Joseph Joffre is made Marshal of France. | |
| December 26th, 1898 (December 26 1898) | Event | Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium. | Marie Curie Quotes |
| December 26th, 1883 (December 26 1883) | Event | The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland. | |
| December 26th, 1871 (December 26 1871) | Event | Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years. | |
| December 26th, 1870 (December 26 1870) | Event | The 12.8-km long Frejus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed. | |
| December 26th, 1862 (December 26 1862) | Event | American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins. | |
| December 26th, 1862 (December 26 1862) | Event | Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship. | |
| December 26th, 1862 (December 26 1862) | Event | The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, killing 39. | |
| December 26th, 1861 (December 26 1861) | Event | American Civil War: The Trent Affair: 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. | |
| December 26th, 1860 (December 26 1860) | Event | The first ever inter-club football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England. | |
| December 26th, 1848 (December 26 1848) | Event | The Phi Delta Theta fraternity is founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. | |
| December 26th, 1825 (December 26 1825) | Event | Several Imperial Russia army officers lead circa 3000 soldiers on the Senate Square in the failed Decembrist uprising. | |
| December 26th, 1811 (December 26 1811) | Event | 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. | Will Smith Quotes |
| December 26th, 1806 (December 26 1806) | Event | Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon. | |
| December 26th, 1805 (December 26 1805) | Event | Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg. | |
| December 26th, 1793 (December 26 1793) | Event | Battle of Geisberg: French defeat Austrians. | |
| December 26th, 1793 (December 26 1793) | Event | The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place. | |
| December 26th, 1792 (December 26 1792) | Event | The final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris. | |
| December 26th, 1790 (December 26 1790) | Event | Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution. | |
| December 26th, 1776 (December 26 1776) | Event | American Revolutionary War: The British are defeated in the Battle of Trenton. | |
| December 26th, 1620 (December 26 1620) | Event | Elizabeth Bathory s crimes are uncovered. | Elizabeth Bath Quotes |
| December 26th, 1620 (December 26 1620) | Event | Pilgrim Fathers land at what becomes New Plymouth in Massachusetts. | |
| December 26th, 1481 (December 26 1481) | Event | Battle of WestbrookHolland defeats troops of Utrecht. | |
