About December 26
December 26, 2021 is the 360th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 5 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 37 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 26
- 1790 –Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
- 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.
- 1846 –Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1925 –Turkey adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
- 1933 –FM radio is patented.
- 1944 –World War II: Patton’s Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
- 1966 –The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1999 –The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
- 2003 –A magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-é Bam.
- 2005 –A gang-related shooting on a busy shopping street in Toronto kills one and injures six.
- 2006 –A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Hengchun, Pingtung, Taiwan, killing two people and causing severe communication disruptions in southeast Asia.
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