Information about December 26
December 26 is the 360th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, 361st in leap years. There are 5 days remaining. Events: * 1620 - Elizabeth Bathory's crimes are uncovered * 1776 - American Revolutionary War: The British were defeated in the Battle of Trenton * 1825 - The Erie Canal opens * 1860 - Confederate diplomatic envoys James Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and Great Britain * 1908 - Jack Johnson becomes the first African American heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia * 1933 - The Nissan Motor Company was organized in Tokyo, Japan * 1933 - FM radio is patented * 1944 - The play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams was first publicly performed). * 1944 - American troops repulse German forces at Bastogne * 1966 - The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University at Long Beach * 1982 - Time magazine's Man of the Year was for the first time given to a non-human; a computer. * 1991 - Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the USSR. * 1996 - JonBenet Ramsey, a six-year-old beauty queen, was found murdered in her family's basement in Boulder, Colorado. * 1998 - Iraq announced its intention to fire upon US and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern "no-fly zones". Births: * 1194 - Frederick II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (+ 1250) * 1716 - Thomas Gray, poet and letter-writer († 1771) * 1751 - Clement Mary Hofbauer, Redemptorist missionary (+ 1820) * 1791 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor of computing machines (+ 1871) * 1837 - George Dewey, Admiral in the United States Navy (+ 1917) * 1883 - Maurice Utrillo, painter (+ 1955) * 1891 - Henry Miller, writer (+ 1980) * 1893 - Mao Zedong, Chinese politician and dictator (+ 1976) * 1903 - Elisha Cook Jr., actor (+ 1995) * 1914 - Richard Widmark, actor * 1921 - Steve Allen, actor, comedian, composer, author (+ 2000) * 1927 - Alan King, comedian, actor * 1940 - Phil Spector, music producer * 1942 - Gray Davis, Governor of California * 1945 - John Walsh, talk show host, television presenter * 1954 - Ozzie Smith, Baseball Hall of Famer * 1971 - Jared Leto, actor Deaths: * 1890 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist * 1909 - Frederic Remington, artist * 1963 - Gorgeous George, professional wrestler, television personality * 1972 - Harry S Truman, 33rd president of the United States * 1974 - Jack Benny, comedian * 1977 - Howard Hawks, film director, writer * 1985 - Dian Fossey, anthropologist * 1986 - Elsa Lanchester, actress * 1999 - Curtis Mayfield, musician * 2000 - Jason Robards, actor * 2001 - Nigel Hawthorne, actor * 2002 - Herb Ritts, celebrity photographer Holidays and Observances: * Boxing Day in the United Kingdom and Australia * St. Stephen's Day, a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland * First day of Kwanzaa * Feast day of Saint Stephen (in the western Christian church))
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