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December 26




December 26 is the 360th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, 361st in
leap years. There are 5 days remaining.

Events:

   * 1620 - Elizabeth Bathory's crimes are uncovered
   * 1776 - American Revolutionary War: The British were defeated in the
     Battle of Trenton
   * 1825 - The Erie Canal opens
   * 1860 - Confederate diplomatic envoys James Mason and John Slidell are
     freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war
     between the United States and Great Britain
   * 1908 - Jack Johnson becomes the first African American heavyweight
     boxing champion by defeating Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia
   * 1933 - The Nissan Motor Company was organized in Tokyo, Japan
   * 1933 - FM radio is patented
   * 1944 - The play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams was first
     publicly performed).
   * 1944 - American troops repulse German forces at Bastogne
   * 1966 - The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of
     Black Studies at California State University at Long Beach
   * 1982 - Time magazine's Man of the Year was for the first time given to
     a non-human; a computer.
   * 1991 - Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the USSR.
   * 1996 - JonBenet Ramsey, a six-year-old beauty queen, was found murdered
     in her family's basement in Boulder, Colorado.
   * 1998 - Iraq announced its intention to fire upon US and British
     warplanes that patrol the northern and southern "no-fly zones".

Births:

   * 1194 - Frederick II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (+ 1250)
   * 1716 - Thomas Gray, poet and letter-writer († 1771)
   * 1751 - Clement Mary Hofbauer, Redemptorist missionary (+ 1820)
   * 1791 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor of computing
     machines (+ 1871)
   * 1837 - George Dewey, Admiral in the United States Navy (+ 1917)
   * 1883 - Maurice Utrillo, painter (+ 1955)
   * 1891 - Henry Miller, writer (+ 1980)
   * 1893 - Mao Zedong, Chinese politician and dictator (+ 1976)
   * 1903 - Elisha Cook Jr., actor (+ 1995)
   * 1914 - Richard Widmark, actor
   * 1921 - Steve Allen, actor, comedian, composer, author (+ 2000)
   * 1927 - Alan King, comedian, actor
   * 1940 - Phil Spector, music producer
   * 1942 - Gray Davis, Governor of California
   * 1945 - John Walsh, talk show host, television presenter
   * 1954 - Ozzie Smith, Baseball Hall of Famer
   * 1971 - Jared Leto, actor

Deaths:

   * 1890 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist
   * 1909 - Frederic Remington, artist
   * 1963 - Gorgeous George, professional wrestler, television personality
   * 1972 - Harry S Truman, 33rd president of the United States
   * 1974 - Jack Benny, comedian
   * 1977 - Howard Hawks, film director, writer
   * 1985 - Dian Fossey, anthropologist
   * 1986 - Elsa Lanchester, actress
   * 1999 - Curtis Mayfield, musician
   * 2000 - Jason Robards, actor
   * 2001 - Nigel Hawthorne, actor
   * 2002 - Herb Ritts, celebrity photographer

Holidays and Observances:

   * Boxing Day in the United Kingdom and Australia
   * St. Stephen's Day, a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland
   * First day of Kwanzaa
   * Feast day of Saint Stephen (in the western Christian church))

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