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
- 1481 –Battle of Westbroek: Holland defeats troops of Utrecht.
- 1613 –Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, marries Frances Howard.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: The British are defeated in the Battle of Trenton.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1883 –The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland.
- 1925 –Turkey adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1976 –The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded.
- 1980 –Aeroflot puts the Ilyushin Il-86 into service.
- 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.
- 1998 –Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.
- 1999 –The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
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