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26th of December 1135 EVENT Coronation of King Stephen of England.
26th of December 1481 EVENT Battle of Westbroek: Holland defeats troops of Utrecht.
26th of December 1613 EVENT Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, marries Frances Howard.
26th of December 1776 EVENT American Revolutionary War: The British are defeated in the Battle of Trenton.
26th of December 1790 EVENT Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
26th of December 1792 EVENT The final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris.
26th of December 1793 EVENT Second Battle of Wissembourg: French defeat Austrians.
26th of December 1793 EVENT The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.
26th of December 1799 EVENT Four thousand people attend George Washington's funeral where Henry Lee declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
26th of December 1805 EVENT Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg.
26th of December 1806 EVENT Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon.
26th of December 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.
26th of December 1846 EVENT Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism.
26th of December 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.
26th of December 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.
26th of December 1862 EVENT American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.
26th of December 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.
26th of December 1862 EVENT The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, 38 Native Americans die.
26th of December 1870 EVENT The 12.8-km long Frejus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
26th of December 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.
26th of December 1883 EVENT The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland.
26th of December 1898 EVENT Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
26th of December 1919 EVENT Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.
26th of December 1925 EVENT Turkey adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
26th of December 1933 EVENT FM radio is patented.
26th of December 1941 EVENT U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
26th of December 1943 EVENT World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.
26th of December 1944 EVENT World War II: Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
26th of December 1945 EVENT CFP franc and CFA franc are created.
26th of December 1948 EVENT Cardinal Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
26th of December 1966 EVENT The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
26th of December 1972 EVENT 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.
26th of December 1975 EVENT The Tupolev Tu-144 goes into service in Soviet Union.
26th of December 1976 EVENT The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded.
26th of December 1980 EVENT Aeroflot puts the Ilyushin Il-86 into service.
26th of December 1982 EVENT Time Magazine's Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer.
26th of December 1986 EVENT The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air.
26th of December 1991 EVENT The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the USSR.
26th of December 1994 EVENT 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.
26th of December 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.
26th of December 1996 EVENT Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
26th of December 1997 EVENT The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore.
26th of December 1998 EVENT Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.
26th of December 1999 EVENT The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
26th of December 2003 EVENT A magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-e Bam.
26th of December 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 over 230,000 people including over 1700 on a moving train.
26th of December 2004 EVENT Orange Revolution: The final run-off election is held under heavy international scrutiny.
26th of December 2005 EVENT A gang-related shooting on a busy shopping street in Toronto kills one and injures six.
26th of December 2006 EVENT A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Hengchun, Pingtung, Taiwan, killing two people and causing severe communication disruptions in southeast Asia.
26th of December 2006 EVENT An oil pipeline in Lagos, Nigeria explodes, killing at least 260.
26th of December 1194 BIRTHDAY Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1250)
26th of December 1532 BIRTHDAY Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (d. 1576)
26th of December 1536 BIRTHDAY Yi I, Korean Confucian scholar (d. 1584)
26th of December 1646 BIRTHDAY Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (d. 1709)
26th of December 1687 BIRTHDAY Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (d. 1755)
26th of December 1716 BIRTHDAY Jean Francois de Saint-Lambert, French poet (d. 1803)
26th of December 1716 BIRTHDAY Thomas Gray, English writer (d. 1771)
26th of December 1723 BIRTHDAY Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807)
26th of December 1737 BIRTHDAY Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (d. 1815)
26th of December 1751 BIRTHDAY Clement Hofbauer, Austrian missionary and saint (d. 1820)
26th of December 1771 BIRTHDAY Julie Clary, queen consort of Naples (d. 1845)
26th of December 1780 BIRTHDAY Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (d. 1872)
26th of December 1782 BIRTHDAY Filaret Drozdov, Metropolitan of Moscow (d. 1867)
26th of December 1791 BIRTHDAY Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (d. 1871)
26th of December 1819 BIRTHDAY E. D. E. N. Southworth, American novelist (d. 1899)
26th of December 1822 BIRTHDAY Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright (d. 1890)
26th of December 1837 BIRTHDAY Morgan Bulkeley, American politician, 54th Governor of Connecticut and baseball commissioner (d. 1922)
26th of December 1837 BIRTHDAY George Dewey, U. S. admiral (d. 1917)
26th of December 1853 BIRTHDAY Rene Bazin, French novelist (d. 1932)
26th of December 1859 BIRTHDAY William Stephens, American politician and 24th Governor of California (d. 1944)
26th of December 1863 BIRTHDAY Charles Pathe, French pioneer of film and record industries (d. 1957)
26th of December 1872 BIRTHDAY Norman Angell, British politician, Nobel laureate (d. 1967)
26th of December 1873 BIRTHDAY Thomas Wass, English cricketer (d. 1953)
26th of December 1883 BIRTHDAY Maurice Utrillo, French artist (d. 1955)
26th of December 1887 BIRTHDAY Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army officer (d. 1966)
26th of December 1890 BIRTHDAY Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (d. 1992)
26th of December 1891 BIRTHDAY Henry Miller, American writer (d. 1980)
26th of December 1893 BIRTHDAY Mao Zedong, Chinese military leader and politician (d. 1976)
26th of December 1894 BIRTHDAY Jean Toomer, American writer (d. 1967)
26th of December 1902 BIRTHDAY Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian painter (d. 1980)
26th of December 1903 BIRTHDAY Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (d. 1995)
26th of December 1904 BIRTHDAY Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (d. 1980)
26th of December 1905 BIRTHDAY William Loeb, American newspaper publisher, (d. 1981)
26th of December 1906 BIRTHDAY Imperio Argentina, Argentine actress and singer (d. 2003)
26th of December 1907 BIRTHDAY Albert Gore Sr., American Politician (d. 1998)
26th of December 1911 BIRTHDAY Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (d. 1962)
26th of December 1913 BIRTHDAY Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (d. 1958)
26th of December 1914 BIRTHDAY Annemarie Wendl, German actress (d. 2006)
26th of December 1914 BIRTHDAY Richard Widmark, American actor (d. 2008)
26th of December 1918 BIRTHDAY George Rallis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2006)
26th of December 1921 BIRTHDAY Steve Allen, American comedian (d. 2000)
26th of December 1922 BIRTHDAY Richard Mayes, English actor (d. 2006)
26th of December 1924 BIRTHDAY Frank Broyles, American athlete, long time athletic director of the University of Arkansas
26th of December 1926 BIRTHDAY Gina Pellon, Cuban painter
26th of December 1927 BIRTHDAY Alan King, American comedian (d. 2004)
26th of December 1927 BIRTHDAY Denis Quilley, British actor (d. 2003)
26th of December 1927 BIRTHDAY Stu Miller, American baseball player
26th of December 1929 BIRTHDAY Regine, French singer and nightclub owner
26th of December 1930 BIRTHDAY Donald Moffat, English-born actor
26th of December 1930 BIRTHDAY Jean Ferrat, French singer and songwriter
26th of December 1933 BIRTHDAY Ugly Dave Gray, Australian television personality
26th of December 1933 BIRTHDAY Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer
26th of December 1935 BIRTHDAY Abdul "Duke" Fakir, American singer (The Four Tops)
26th of December 1935 BIRTHDAY Norm Ullman, Canadian hockey player
26th of December 1937 BIRTHDAY Jay Heimowitz, American poker player
26th of December 1937 BIRTHDAY John Horton Conway, British mathematician
26th of December 1938 BIRTHDAY Bahram Beizai, Iranian playwright and film director
26th of December 1938 BIRTHDAY Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi film director (d. 1989)
26th of December 1939 BIRTHDAY Fred Schepisi, Australian film director
26th of December 1940 BIRTHDAY Edward C. Prescott, American economist, Nobel laureate
26th of December 1940 BIRTHDAY Ray Sadecki, American Major league baseball pitcher
26th of December 1941 BIRTHDAY Daniel Schmid, Swiss film director (d. 2006)
26th of December 1942 BIRTHDAY Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo, Guatemalan president
26th of December 1942 BIRTHDAY Gray Davis, American politician and 37th Governor of California
26th of December 1944 BIRTHDAY Jane Lapotaire, British actress
26th of December 1945 BIRTHDAY John Walsh, American talk show host
26th of December 1946 BIRTHDAY Alan Frumin, Parliamentarian of the United States Senate
26th of December 1947 BIRTHDAY James T. Conway, 34th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
26th of December 1947 BIRTHDAY Richard L. McCormick, President of Rutgers University
26th of December 1947 BIRTHDAY Carlton Fisk, American baseball player
26th of December 1948 BIRTHDAY Candy Crowley, American journalist
26th of December 1949 BIRTHDAY Jose Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor, Nobel laureate
26th of December 1951 BIRTHDAY John Scofield, American jazz guitarist
26th of December 1951 BIRTHDAY Richard Skinner, British radio presenter
26th of December 1953 BIRTHDAY Leonel Fernandez, Dominican politician and current President of the Dominican Republic
26th of December 1953 BIRTHDAY Henning Schmitz, German musician (Kraftwerk)
26th of December 1953 BIRTHDAY Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia
26th of December 1954 BIRTHDAY Ozzie Smith, American baseball player
26th of December 1954 BIRTHDAY Steve Steen, English actor
26th of December 1954 BIRTHDAY Tony Rosato, Italian-Canadian actor
26th of December 1954 BIRTHDAY Peter Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer
26th of December 1955 BIRTHDAY Evan Bayh, American politician, 46th Governor of Indiana, and United States Senator from Indiana
26th of December 1956 BIRTHDAY David Sedaris, American essayist
26th of December 1957 BIRTHDAY Dermot Murnaghan, British broadcaster
26th of December 1958 BIRTHDAY Adrian Newey, British engineer
26th of December 1959 BIRTHDAY Koji Morimoto, Japanese animated film director
26th of December 1960 BIRTHDAY Christian Muller, German footballer
26th of December 1960 BIRTHDAY Temuera Morrison, New Zealand actor
26th of December 1960 BIRTHDAY Jim Toomey, American syndicated cartoonist
26th of December 1960 BIRTHDAY Tina Wesson, Winner of Survivor: The Australian Outback
26th of December 1961 BIRTHDAY John Lynch, Irish actor
26th of December 1961 BIRTHDAY Andrew Lock, Australian mountaineer
26th of December 1963 BIRTHDAY Lars Ulrich, Danish-born drummer (Metallica)
26th of December 1963 BIRTHDAY Bill Wennington, Canadian basketball player
26th of December 1964 BIRTHDAY Elizabeth Kostova, American author
26th of December 1966 BIRTHDAY Tim Legler, American basketball player
26th of December 1966 BIRTHDAY Sandra Taylor, American model and actress
26th of December 1966 BIRTHDAY Jay Yuenger, American musician and producer
26th of December 1966 BIRTHDAY Jay Farrar, American musician and songwriter
26th of December 1968 BIRTHDAY Dennis Knight, American professional wrestler
26th of December 1970 BIRTHDAY James Mercer, American musician (The Shins)
26th of December 1970 BIRTHDAY Krissada Terrence, Thai singer and actor
26th of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Mika Nurmela, Finnish footballer
26th of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Jared Leto, American actor and singer (30 Seconds to Mars)
26th of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Jonathan M. Parisen, American film director
26th of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Esteban Fuertes, Argentine footballer
26th of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Shane Meadows, British filmmaker
26th of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Robert Muchamore, English children's author
26th of December 1973 BIRTHDAY Gianluca Faliva, Italian rugby player
26th of December 1973 BIRTHDAY Reichen Lehmkuhl, American television personality
26th of December 1973 BIRTHDAY Paulao, Brazilian footballer
26th of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Tiffany Brissette, American TV actress
26th of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Zach Blair, American guitarist (Rise Against)
26th of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Joshua John Miller, American actor
26th of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Josie Ho, Hong Kong singer and actor
26th of December 1975 BIRTHDAY Marcelo Rios, Chilean tennis player
26th of December 1976 BIRTHDAY Simon Goodwin, Australian rules footballer
26th of December 1976 BIRTHDAY Lea De Mae, Czech actress (d. 2004)
26th of December 1976 BIRTHDAY Nadia Litz, Canadian actress
26th of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Kaoru Sugayama, Japanese volleyball player
26th of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Fabian Carini, Uruguayan footballer
26th of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Mzbel, Ghanaian singer
26th of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Chris Daughtry, American singer
26th of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Dimitry Vassiliev, Russian ski jumper
26th of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Craig Wing, Australian Rugby League Player
26th of December 1980 BIRTHDAY Todd Dunivant, American soccer player
26th of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Pablo Canavosio, Argentine-born Italian rugby player
26th of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Oguri Shun, Japanese actor/model
26th of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Aksel Lund Svindal, Norwegian skier
26th of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Kenneth Darby, American football player
26th of December 1984 BIRTHDAY Leonardo Ghiraldini, Italian rugby player
26th of December 1984 BIRTHDAY Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker
26th of December 1985 BIRTHDAY Yuu Shirota, Japanese Idol
26th of December 1986 BIRTHDAY Hugo Lloris, French goalkeeper
26th of December 1987 BIRTHDAY Adam Walker, British flautist
26th of December 1989 BIRTHDAY Jennica Garcia, Filipina actress
26th of December 1990 BIRTHDAY Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
26th of December 1995 BIRTHDAY Zach Mills, American actor
26th of December 2000 BIRTHDAY Samuel Sevian, American chess player
26th of December 0268 DEATH Pope Dionysius
26th of December 0418 DEATH Pope Zosimus
26th of December 1350 DEATH Jean de Marigny, French bishop
26th of December 1458 DEATH Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (Born 1393)
26th of December 1476 DEATH Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (Born 1444)
26th of December 1530 DEATH Babur, Emperor of the Mogul empire (Born 1483)
26th of December 1574 DEATH Charles of Guise, French cardinal (Born 1524)
26th of December 1624 DEATH Simon Marius, German astronomer (Born 1573)
26th of December 1731 DEATH Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (Born 1672)
26th of December 1771 DEATH Claude Adrien Helvetius, French philosopher (Born 1715)
26th of December 1780 DEATH John Fothergill, English physician (Born 1712)
26th of December 1784 DEATH Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (Born 1743)
26th of December 1786 DEATH Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (Born 1713)
26th of December 1869 DEATH Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille, French physiologist (Born 1797)
26th of December 1890 DEATH Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (Born 1822)
26th of December 1909 DEATH Frederic Remington, American artist (Born 1861)
26th of December 1923 DEATH Dietrich Eckart, German Nazi politician (Born 1868)
26th of December 1931 DEATH Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey decimal classification (Born 1851)
26th of December 1933 DEATH Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (Born 1875)
26th of December 1933 DEATH Henry Watson Fowler, English schoolmaster and lexicographer (Born 1858)
26th of December 1960 DEATH Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (Born 1889)
26th of December 1963 DEATH George Wagner (Gorgeous George), American professional wrestler and television personality (Born 1915)
26th of December 1966 DEATH Herbert Otto Gille, German SS officer (Born 1897)
26th of December 1970 DEATH Lillian Board, British track and field athlete (Born 1948)
26th of December 1972 DEATH Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (Born 1884)
26th of December 1973 DEATH Harold B. Lee, 11th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Born 1899)
26th of December 1974 DEATH Jack Benny, American comedian (Born 1894)
26th of December 1974 DEATH Farid al-Atrash, Arab composer (Born 1915)
26th of December 1977 DEATH Howard Hawks, American film director and writer (Born 1896)
26th of December 1980 DEATH Tony Smith, American sculptor (Born 1912)
26th of December 1981 DEATH Savitri, Indian actress (Born 1937)
26th of December 1981 DEATH Amber Reeves, British feminist writer (Born 1887)
26th of December 1983 DEATH Violet Carson, British actress (Born 1898)
26th of December 1985 DEATH Dian Fossey, American gorilla specialist (Born 1932)
26th of December 1985 DEATH Harold P. Warren, American movie director (d. 1928)
26th of December 1986 DEATH Elsa Lanchester, British-born actress (Born 1902)
26th of December 1988 DEATH Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (Born 1907)
26th of December 1989 DEATH Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1924)
26th of December 1990 DEATH Gene Callahan, American film art and production designer (Born 1923)
26th of December 1992 DEATH Nikita Magaloff, Russian pianist (Born 1912)
26th of December 1994 DEATH Parveen Shakir, Pakistani poetess (Born 1952)
26th of December 1997 DEATH Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek philosopher and economist (Born 1922)
26th of December 1999 DEATH Curtis Mayfield, American musician (Born 1942)
26th of December 1999 DEATH Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India (Born 1918)
26th of December 2000 DEATH Jason Robards, American actor (Born 1922)
26th of December 2001 DEATH Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (Born 1929)
26th of December 2002 DEATH Armand Zildjian, American cymbal manufacturer (Born 1921)
26th of December 2002 DEATH Herb Ritts, American photographer (Born 1952)
26th of December 2004 DEATH Reggie White, American football player (Born 1961)
26th of December 2004 DEATH Marianne Heiberg, Norwegian mediator (Born 1945)
26th of December 2004 DEATH Troy Broadbridge, Australian rules footballer (Born 1980)
26th of December 2004 DEATH Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African heart surgeon (Born 1959)
26th of December 2004 DEATH Khun Bhumi Jensen, Thai Royal Family member (Born 1983)
26th of December 2004 DEATH Sigurd K?hn, Norwegian jazz musician (Born 1959)
26th of December 2004 DEATH Aki Sirkesalo, Finnish musician (Born 1962)
26th of December 2004 DEATH Sir Angus Ogilvy, British businessman (Born 1928)
26th of December 2004 DEATH Mieszko Talarczyk, Polish-born Swedish musician (Nasum) (Born 1974)
26th of December 2005 DEATH Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American mezzo-soprano (Born 1937)
26th of December 2005 DEATH Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (Born 1937)
26th of December 2005 DEATH Erich Topp, German submarine commander (Born 1914)
26th of December 2005 DEATH Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (Born 1948)
26th of December 2006 DEATH Ivar Formo, Norwegian skier (Born 1951)
26th of December 2006 DEATH Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (Born 1913)
26th of December 2007 DEATH John A. Garraty, American author (Born 1920)
26th of December 2007 DEATH Joe Dolan, Irish entertainer (Born 1943)
26th of December 2007 DEATH Stu Nahan, American sportscaster (Born 1926)
26th of December 2008 DEATH Gosta Krantz, Swedish actor (Born 1925)
26th of December 2009 DEATH Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (Born 1958)
26th of December 2010 DEATH Teena Marie, American singer and composer (Born 1956)
26th of December 2010 DEATH Edward Bhengu, South African activist (Born 1934)