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
- 1613 –Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, marries Frances Howard.
- 1790 –Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
- 1806 –Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon.
- 1860 –The first ever inter-club football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England.
- 1862 –The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, 38 Native Americans die.
- 1883 –The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1980 –Aeroflot puts the Ilyushin Il-86 into service.
- 1986 –The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air.
- 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.
- 1999 –The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2006 –An oil pipeline in Lagos, Nigeria explodes, killing at least 260.
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