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.
- 1790 –Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
- 1792 –The final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris, France.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1919 –Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: Patton’s Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
- 1945 –CFP franc and CFA franc are created.
- 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.
- 1991 –The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
- 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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