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.
- 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.
- 1846 –Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism.
- 1871 –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.
- 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.
- 1933 –FM radio is patented.
- 1943 –World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway’s North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.
- 1945 –CFP franc and CFA franc are created.
- 1975 –The Tupolev Tu-144 SST goes into service in Soviet Union.
- 1976 –The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded.
- 1980 –Aeroflot puts the Ilyushin Il-86 into service.
- 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.
- 1997 –The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore.
- 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.
- 2006 –An oil pipeline in Lagos, Nigeria explodes, killing at least 260.
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