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.
- 1613 –Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, marries Frances Howard.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: The British are defeated in the Battle of Trenton.
- 1793 –Second Battle of Wissembourg: French defeat Austrians.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 1919 –Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.
- 1933 –FM radio is patented.
- 1941 –U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
- 1945 –CFP franc and CFA franc are created.
- 1982 –Time’s Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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