About December 26
December 26, 2024 is the 361st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 5 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 34 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 26
- 1135 –Coronation of King Stephen of England.
- 1481 –Battle of Westbroek: Holland defeats troops of Utrecht.
- 1790 –Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
- 1793 –Second Battle of Wissembourg: French defeat Austrians.
- 1793 –The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.
- 1799 –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.”
- 1806 –Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon.
- 1811 –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.
- 1861 –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 United Kingdom.
- 1862 –The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, 38 Native Americans die.
- 1900 –A relief crew arrives the the lighthouse on the Flannan Isles of Scotland, only to find the previous crew has disappeared without a trace.
- 1925 –Turkey adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
- 1941 –U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
- 1991 –The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
- 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.
- 1998 –Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.
- 1999 –The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
- 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.
- 2004 –Orange Revolution: The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.
- 2005 –A gang-related shooting on a busy shopping street in Toronto kills one and injures six.
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