December 26

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on December 26. From 1900 until now. December 26 is under the sign of Capricorn. Famous birthdays on this day include Jared Leto (1971), Kit Harington (1986) and Jean Ferrat (1930). Several movies were released around December 26 over the years, such as Sadie Thompson in 1927 directed by Raoul Walsh and The Best Offer in 2012 directed by Giuseppe Tornatore.
But much more happened on December 26 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

The first day of Christmas in Western Christianity.
First day of Kwanzaa
Boxing Day in the Commonwealth of Nations.
Australia - Proclamation Day (South Australian public holiday), for the foundation of the Australian state of South Australia on December 28, 1836 but commemorated on this day.
Wrenboys celebrate Wren in Ireland
Period of Ursids meteor shower ends about this day
Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia - Tsunami Awareness Day/Tsunami Memorial (or Remembrance) Day
Mandala Pooja at Sabarimala in Kerala, India
First day of Junkanoo street parade in the Bahamas (the second day is on the New Year's Day)
Wren day in Ireland and the Isle of Man.
St. Stephen's Day, a public holiday in Catalonia, Croatia, Czech Republic, and the Republic of Ireland.
R.C. Saints - Saint Stephen
South Africa - Day of Goodwill, a public holiday
Slovenia - Independence and Unity Day (1990)
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Events

2018 U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump make an unannounced post-Christmas visit to troops at the Al Asad Airbase in Iraq, their first visit to a combat zone since taking office. (BBC) (The Washington Post)
2017 Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen: According to emergency services and the Houthi-owned Al Masirah, Saudi Arabian coalition air strikes kill 15 people and wound 60 at al-Shahra souq, a popular market in Taiz Governorate. (Al Jazeera) (Het Laatste Nieuws)
2016 American Actor George S. Irving, best known for being one of the last members of the original production of Oklahoma! and voicing Heat Miser from The Year Without a Santa Claus, dies at age 94. (The Hollywood Reporter)
2015 At least one person is injured and another is arrested after a machete attack at Intu Bromley shopping centre in the United Kingdom during the busy annual Boxing Day sales. A motive or possible link to terrorism has not yet been established. (The Guardian)
2014 War in Donbass: Ukraine and pro-Russia rebels exchange nearly 370 prisoners in the largest such exchange since hostilities began in April this year. (AP via ABC News)
2013 Central African Republic conflict under the Djotodia administration:: Six peacekeepers from Chad are killed in clashes in the Central African Republic. (BBC)
2012 War in Afghanistan (2001–present):: A suicide bomber kills himself and three Afghans (a guard and two civilians) outside the perimeter of Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan, the scene of an earlier attack in December 2009. (AP via MSN)
2011 2011 Syrian uprising: Renewed violence takes place in the city of Homs as Arab League observers arrive in Syria to monitor the country's ongoing uprising. (BBC)
2010 Jos attacks:
2009 A bomb squad in Reykjavik, Iceland, searches a diverted Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Detroit, Michigan, United States, that carries a bag whose owner did not make it onto the plane. (Reuters)
2008 China's People's Liberation Army Navy begins escorting three warships (two destroyers and one replenishment oiler) to the Gulf of Aden to combat piracy in Somalia. (Xinhua)
2007 Record temperatures stoke bushfires in Perth, Western Australia arson is suspected. (''The West Australian'')
2006 A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Hengchun, Pingtung, Taiwan, killing two people and causing severe communication disruptions in southeast Asia.
2005 A gang-related shooting on a busy shopping street in Toronto kills one and injures six.
2004 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 over 230,000 people including over 1700 on a moving train.
2003 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-e Bam.
2002 North Korea is reactivating a plutonium producing nuclear power plant north of Pyongyang after removing United Nations seals on the reactor and degrading the capability of surveillance cameras. This same reactor is thought by U.S. officials as the source for plutonium for two previously produced atomic bombs. North Korea has been named by the George W. Bush Administration as part of the so-called ampquotaxis of evilampquot.
2000 '''Died:''' Jason Robards, 78, US actor
1999 The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
1998 Six sailors die and 5 yachts are lost in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, the biggest disaster in the race's history
1997 The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore.
1996 Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
1995 Muttiah Muralitharan no-balled for throwing (SL versus Australia, Melbourne Cricket Ground).
1994 Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969. When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the perpetrators.
1993 Comedian Rodney Dangerfield (72) weds Joan Child (41)
1992 New York Jets' announcer Marty Glickman retires at age 75.
1991 The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the USSR.
1990 Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship
1988 Legs Diamond opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 64 performances
1987 Les Miserables opens at National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik
1986 Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed
1984 Belgian princess Astrid marries arch duke Otto L van Austrian-Este.
1982 A brief but severe recession begins in the United States.
1980 Richard Chase, the "Vampire of Sacramento," kills himself by overdose on San Quentin prison death row (born 1950).
1979 In Rhodesia, 96 Patriotic Front guerrillas enter the capital Salisbury to monitor a ceasefire that begins December 28.
1976 Music Is closes at St. James Theater NYC after 8 performances
1975 The Tupolev Tu-144 goes into service in Soviet Union.
1974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL sellout
1973 Exorcist, starring Linda Blair and rated X, premieres
1972 Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.
1968 Jay Allens Forty Carats, premieres in New York City
1967 BBC broadcasts Magical Mystery Tour
1966 The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
1965 Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand closes on Broadway
1964 Moors Murderers claim last victim
1963 Double Dublin opens at Little Theater NYC for 4 performances
1960 Do Re Mi opens at St. James Theater NYC for 400 performances
1955 RKO is 1st to announce sale of its film library to TV
1954 The Shadow, airs for last time on radio
1952 Joseph Ivor Linton, the first Israeli Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan, presents his credentials to the Japanese Emperor.
1950 Gillette and Mutual buy All Star and World Series advertising rights (US$6 million for six years).
1948 Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty arrested
1947 Cradle Will Ruck opens at Mansfield Theater NYC for 34 performances
1946 Toplitzky of Notre Dame opens at Century Theater NYC for 60 performances
1945 CFP franc and CFA franc are created.
1944 Budapest surrounded by Soviet army.
1943 British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst
1941 Winston Churchill becomes first British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of US Congress, warning that the Axis would "stop at nothing".
1939 Earthquake in East Anatolia Turkey
1936 Israel Philarmonic Orchestra forms
1934 An American Airlines aircraft crashes in the Adirondack Mountains.
1933 FM radio is patented.
1932 Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu, China.
1931 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play Of Thee I Sing opens on Broadway
1928 Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming.
1926 Prince-regent Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan
1925 NHL record 141 shots as New York Americans (73) beat Pittsburgh Pirates (68) 3-1.
1919 Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.
1917 United States president Woodrow Wilson uses the Federal Possession and Control Act to place most U.S. railroads under the United States Railroad Administration, hoping to more efficiently transport troops and materials for the war effort.
1915 The Irish Republican Brotherhood Military Council decides to stage a rising on Easter Sunday 1916.
1908 Jack Johnson becomes the first African American heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia.
1906 The world's first feature film, ''The Story of the Kelly Gang'', is released.
1902 Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) and Christy Williams (42).
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