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.
- 1793 –Second Battle of Wissembourg: French defeat Austrians.
- 1805 –Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg.
- 1806 –Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon.
- 1825 –Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.
- 1862 –Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
- 1883 –The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland.
- 1919 –Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.
- 1943 –World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway’s North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.
- 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.
- 1980 –Aeroflot puts the Ilyushin Il-86 into service.
- 1982 –Time’s Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer.
- 1986 –The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air.
- 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.
- 2003 –A magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-é Bam.
- 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.
- 2005 –A gang-related shooting on a busy shopping street in Toronto kills one and injures six.
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