About December 26
December 26, 2025 is the 360th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 5 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 53 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 26
- 1135 –Coronation of King Stephen of England.
- 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.”
- 1846 –Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism.
- 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 –Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
- 1862 –The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, 38 Native Americans die.
- 1870 –The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
- 1898 –Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
- 1933 –FM radio is patented.
- 1948 –Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
- 1966 –The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
- 1975 –The Tupolev Tu-144 SST goes into service in Soviet Union.
- 1976 –The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded.
- 1986 –The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air.
- 1996 –Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado.
- 1996 –Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
- 1997 –The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore.
- 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.
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