Notable Historical Events on December 26th
December 26th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
268 |
Pope St Dionysius dies |
418 |
Pope St Zosimus dies |
795 |
St Leo III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
1198 |
French bishop Odo van Sully condemns Zottenfeest |
1481 |
Battle at Westbroek: Dutch army beats Utrecht |
1492 |
1st Spanish settlement La Navidad (modern Môle-Saint-Nicolas) in New World founded, by Columbus |
1568 |
Uprising of Morisco's against suppression in Granada |
1620 |
Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, MA |
1620 |
Elizabeth Báthory's crimes are uncovered. |
1659 |
Long Parliament reforms in Westminster |
1748 |
France & Austria signs treaty about Southern Netherlands |
1773 |
Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia |
1776 |
George Washington defeats Hessians at Battle of Trenton in American Revolutionary War |
1792 |
During trial of French King Louis XVI court hears the kings defense brought by Raymond Desèze |
1793 |
Battle of Geisberg: French defeat Austrians. |
1799 |
George Washington is eulogized by Col Henry Lee as "1st in war, 1st in peace & 1st in hearts of his countrymen" |
1805 |
France & Austria signs Peace of Pressburg |
1805 |
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia |
1809 |
English invasionary troop leaves Vlissingen |
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. |
1813 |
Zamose, Modlin, Torgau surrenders to allied armies |
1825 |
Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins [O.S. 14 December] |
1830 |
Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Anna Bolena," premieres in Milan |
1831 |
Vincenzo Bellini's opera "Norma," premieres in Milan |
1848 |
1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF |
1848 |
William & Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia |
1848 |
The Phi Delta Theta fraternity is founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. |
1854 |
Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo |
1860 |
Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt) |
1860 |
Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his small force at Ft Sumter |
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 |
-Dec 28th) Battle of Dumfries, VA |
1862 |
1st US navy hospital ship enters service |
1862 |
38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minnesota, due to their uprising |
1865 |
James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st US coffee percolator |
1870 |
The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed. |
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. |
1872 |
4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18") |
1877 |
Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st natl convention |
1878 |
1st US store to install electric lights, Philadelphia |
1879 |
John Brahms' "Tragic Ouverture," premieres |
1883 |
The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland. |
1890 |
King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with East Africa Company |
1892 |
Opera "Cristoforo Colombo" is produced (La Scala) |
1899 |
Mafeking: Bathe-Powells failed assault up fort Game Tree: 24 killed |
1902 |
Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) & Christy Williams (42) |
1908 |
Jack Johnson TKOs Tommy Burns in 14 for heavyweight boxing title, becomes 1st black heavyweight champion |
1914 |
The US Government protests British interference with American merchant ships at sea, but this same day the German announce they will treat food as contraband, subject to seizure; this will weaken America's protest |
1916 |
Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France |
1917 |
1st NHL defensemen to score a goal: Toronto Maple Leaf Harry Cameron |
1917 |
Fed government took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I |
1918 |
1st day of 1st-class cricket in Aust after WW I (Vic v NSW) |
1919 |
Yankees & Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth the Yankees |
1924 |
Judy Garland, 2½, billed as Baby Frances, makes her show business debut |
1925 |
1st East West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans |
1925 |
NHL record 141 shots as NY Americans (73) beat Pitt Pirates (68) 3-1 |
1925 |
Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar |
1925 |
NY's Jake Forbes makes 67 saves, Pitt's Ray Waters makes 70 |
1925 |
The Communist Party of India is founded. |
1928 |
Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming |
1928 |
World record 10th wicket stand 307 (Kippax / Hooker) NSW v Vic |
1931 |
George/Ira Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing," premieres in NYC |
1931 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing" opens on Bdwy |
1933 |
Bradman scores 187* NSW v Victoria, 294 mins, 13 fours |
1933 |
US forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere |
1933 |
FM radio is patented. |
1934 |
Yomiuri Giants, Japan's 1st professional baseball team forms |
1935 |
Stalin views Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady Macbeth" |
1936 |
Israel Philarmonic Orch forms |
1938 |
Bradman scores 225 South Aust v Qld before Christ gets him out |
1938 |
Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England v South Africa |
1939 |
Earthquake in East Anatolia Turkey |
1939 |
Mine strikes in Borinage Brussels |
1940 |
1st-class debut of Arthur Morris, who scores 148 |
1940 |
JA Fields/J Chodorov's "My Sister Eileen," premieres in NYC |
1941 |
Winston Churchill becomes 1st British PM to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing" |
1943 |
British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst |
1943 |
Chicago Bears win NFL championship |
1943 |
Earl Claus von Stauffenberg vain with bomb to Hitlers headquarter |
1944 |
Battle of Bastogne-US Gen Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse Germans |
1944 |
Budapest surrounded by soviet army |
1944 |
Tennessee Williams' play "Glass Menagerie," premieres in Chicago |
1945 |
CFP franc and CFA franc are created. |
1946 |
"Beggar's Holiday" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 111 performances |
1946 |
"Toplitzky of Notre Dame" opens at Century Theater NYC for 60 perfs |
1946 |
35th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Melbourne (5-0) |
1946 |
Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era) |
1947 |
"Cradle Will Ruck" opens at Mansfield Theater NYC for 34 performances |
1947 |
British transfer Heard & McDonald Is (Indian Ocean) to Australia |
1947 |
Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries NYC under 25.8" of snow in 16 hrs That same day, LA set a record high of 84°F |
1948 |
Hungarian cardinal Mindszenty arrested |
1950 |
Gillette & Mutual buy All Star & World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs) |
1954 |
"The Shadow," airs for last time on radio |
1954 |
Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship, beating Detroit 56-10 |
1955 |
Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship, beating Los Angeles Rams 38-14 |
1955 |
RKO is 1st to announce sale of its film library to TV |
1957 |
Roger Sessions' 3rd Symphony premieres in London |
1960 |
"Do Re Mi" opens at St James Theater NYC for 400 performances |
1960 |
Musical "Do re mi" with Phil Silvers premieres in NYC |
1960 |
Philadelphia Eagles beat Green Bay Packers 17-13 in NFL championship game |
1963 |
"Double Dublin" opens at Little Theater NYC for 4 performances |
1963 |
Beatles release "I Want To Hold Your Hand"/"I Saw Her Standing There" |
1963 |
US furnishes cereal to USSR |
1964 |
Beatles' "I Feel Fine," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks |
1964 |
Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship game |
1964 |
Moors Murderers claim last victim |
1965 |
"Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand closes on Broadway |
1965 |
Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game |
1965 |
Paul McCartney is interviewed on pirate radio station Radio Caroline |
1966 |
Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) holiday |
1966 |
Jimi Hendrix writes "Purple Haze" backstage at the Upper Cut Club |
1967 |
BBC broadcasts "Magical Mystery Tour" |
1967 |
Dave Brubeck Quartet formally disbands |
1968 |
Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, kills 1 |
1968 |
Jay Allens "Forty Carats," premieres in NYC |
1968 |
Led Zeppelin's concert debut in Denver as opener for Vanilla Fudge |
1968 |
Bruin Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of 3 minors, 2 majors & 2 game misconducts in a game against NY Rangers in NY's Madison Square Garden |
1973 |
Horror film "The Exorcist," starring Linda Blair & rated X, premieres - 1st horror film to be nominated for Best Picture |
1973 |
2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours |
1973 |
Soyuz 13 returns to Earth |
1974 |
Washington Capitals 1st NHL sellout |
1975 |
1st supersonic transport service (USSR-Tupolev-144) |
1975 |
A crowd of 85661 attends the 1st day of the Aust-WI MCG Test Cricket |
1976 |
"Music Is" closes at St James Theater NYC after 8 performances |
1976 |
The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded. |
1977 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1978 |
India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail |
1979 |
Soviet Special forces take over presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. |
1980 |
Aeroflot puts the Ilyushin Il-86 into service. |
1981 |
One of the great day's Test Cricket at the MCG Aust v WI |
1982 |
TIME's Man of the Year is a computer |
1982 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1983 |
Test Cricket debut of Gregory Richard John Matthews, v Pakistan MCG |
1983 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1985 |
Test Cricket debut of Steve Waugh, v India at the MCG |
1986 |
Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed |
1986 |
Doug Jarvis, 31, sets NHL record of 916 consecutive games |
1986 |
TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run |
1986 |
Mark Messier is suspended for 10 games for instigating a fight with Jamie Macoun and breaking his cheekbone |
1987 |
"Les Miserables" opens at National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik |
1988 |
"Legs Diamond" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 64 performances |
1988 |
Anti African student rebellion in China PR |
1989 |
ODI debut for Mark Taylor & Sanath Jayasuriya at cricket MCG |
1990 |
Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship |
1990 |
Reggie Williams becomes 1st GM of WLAF's NY-NJ Knights |
1990 |
Senior Professional Baseball Association folds |
1991 |
Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years |
1991 |
Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction |
1991 |
Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India |
1991 |
NY Islander Derek King ties NJ Devils 5-5 with ½ second left |
1992 |
NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75 |
1993 |
Antonov-26 crashes at Gyumri, Armenia, 36 killed |
1993 |
Floyd, Nicklaus & Rodriguez wins Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge Golf Tourn |
1994 |
French commando's terminate Air France hijacking in Marseille |
1995 |
Muttiah Muralitharan no-balled for throwing (SL v Aust, MCG) |
1995 |
Paul Adams becomes S Afr's youngest Test Cricket player, 18 yrs 340 ds |
1996 |
Start of the largest strike in South Korean history. |
1996 |
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification goes into force. |
1996 |
Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado. |
1997 |
The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore. |
1998 |
Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones. |
1998 |
Severe gales over Ireland, northern England, and southern Scotland cause widespread disruption and widespread power outages in Northern Ireland and southern Scotland. |
1999 |
Severe weather in France kills over 100 people and causes extensive damage to property, trees and the French national power grid (see Lothar). |
2001 |
Crude oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) record one of their largest 1-day jumps of the year as traders become convinced that OPEC will follow through on production cuts |
2003 |
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-é Bam. |
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 230,000 people. |
2005 |
Boxing Day shooting on a busy shopping street in Toronto. |
2006 |
The 2006 Hengchun earthquake with 7.1 magnitude hit Taiwan. |
2012 |
China opens the world's longest high speed rail route from Beijing to Guangzhou |
2015 |
BIFF attacks farming town in Sultan Kudarat; 9 killed |
2015 |
French journalist Ursula Gauthier kicked out of China for slamming Beijing's Uyghur policy |
2015 |
First Christmas full moon in nearly 40 years seen worldwide |
2017 |
China halts oil product exports to North Korea in November as sanctions bite |
2017 |
China's Shanghai to battle 'big city disease' by limiting population to 25 million |
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